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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

The Adobe Flash Player 6 plugin, which was included in Windows XP,
is now obsolete.

Severity: 2/4

Consequences: user access/rights

Provenance: document

Means of attack: no proof of concept, no attack

Ability of attacker: expert (4/4)

Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)

Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)

Creation date: 13/01/2010

IMPACTED PRODUCTS

– Microsoft Windows XP

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

Windows XP was installed with Adobe Flash Player 6, so users did
not have to download it from the Adobe web site.

However, version 6 of Flash Player is now obsolete. The current
version of Flash Player is 10.

This plugin is thus impacted by old vulnerabilities of Adobe Flash
Player 6.

CHARACTERISTICS

Identifiers: 979267, BID-37753, VIGILANCE-VUL-9336, VU#204889

http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Windows-XP-vulnerabilities-of-Flash-Player-6-9336