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Did you hear? There's a critical security hole that lets web pages hijack computers. Of course it's Adobe Flash's fault

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Type confusion and with-scope pointer caught exception

TLDR; There’s a bug in Adobe Flash. The interpreter code of the Action Script Virtual Machine (AVM) does not reset a with-scope pointer when an exception is caught, leading later to a type confusion bug, and eventually to a remote code execution.”

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