Forcing Flash to Play in the Sandbox

Summary: Adobe released a public beta of Flash Player for Firefox that runs the program in a sandbox, a confined environment that blocks actions such as installing or deleting files or modifying system information. The sandboxed build, Flash Player 11.2 beta 5, works with Firefox 4 or later on Windows Vista or Windows 7, and Secunia estimates some version of Flash is installed on 96 percent of the world's Microsoft PCs.
Why it matters: Flash's reach into 96 percent of Microsoft PCs is what makes it a standing target, and this sandbox arrives only as an opt-in beta for one browser on two Windows versions, leaving the rest of that install base on the unsandboxed player.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
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