Flash is exploited less than Reader because of the sandbox. Just as Reader 11 has only been exploited once in the wild so far, due to its sandbox. The Flash sandbox is probably a lot stronger.
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Flash is exploited less than Reader because of the sandbox. Just as Reader 11 has only been exploited once in the wild so far, due to its sandbox. The Flash sandbox is probably a lot stronger.
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It's not really much harder. PDF is a poor example because the format is fairly dangerous in itself, but Javascript doesn't play into it. It's all about providing information to a program that the...
VLC, like many programs, takes in input. Just as PDF readers can take in malformed PDFs and be exploited, so can a media player.
I would highly suggest setting up AppArmor for situations like this...