FYI: Flash disabled in QT 7.3.1

[Josh Mellicker]

If you have shipped products containing Quicktime movies that have  
interactive Flash tracks (as we have), when your customers update to  
QT 7.3.1, the movies will not play, and your product will be dead on  
arrival.

Pulling support for Flash without any ability for developers to  
"certify" their movies as safe or providing any option/warning for  
the consumer is a questionable move for a company wanting to  
establish a standard.

Vista engineers would have put in a few "Allow" dialogs but given the  
user the choice :-o

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QuickTime

CVE-ID: CVE-2007-4707

Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X  
v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2

Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in QuickTime's Flash media handler

Description: Multiple vulnerabilities exist in QuickTime's Flash  
media handler, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code  
execution. With this update, the Flash media handler in QuickTime is  
disabled except for a limited number of existing QuickTime movies  
that are known to be safe.



http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307176

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1292332&tstart=0