nsane.forums Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Flash gets a bit safer for Chrome users Google has released a Chrome browser update to extend its popular sandboxing functionality to the much targeted Flash Player software. The associated Chrome and Flash Player builds have been published on the Chrome developer and canary channels for dev channel users on Windows 7, XP and Vista. The release will be a boost for Adobe, which has been trying to improve the security and stability of the much-maligned Flash Player and has already worked with Microsoft to ensure support for Protected Mode in Internet Explorer on Windows 7 and Vista. Google software engineers Justin Schuh and Carlos Pizano hailed the Flash Player sandbox as an "important milestone" in making Chrome even safer. "In particular, users of Windows XP will see a major security benefit, as Chrome is currently the only browser on the XP platform that runs Flash Player in a sandbox," they wrote in a post on the Chromium blog. "This first iteration of Chrome's Flash Player sandbox for all Windows platforms uses a modified version of Chrome's existing sandbox technology that protects certain sensitive resources from being accessed by malicious code, while allowing applications to use less sensitive ones." Google and Adobe engineers will continue working together over the coming months working out bugs in the code. There are also plans to make the sandbox available for all operating system platforms in the future, according to Adobe senior security strategist Peleus Uhley. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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