CVE-2002-1625 Information

Description

Macromedia Flash Player 6 does not terminate connections when the user leaves the web page which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth resource and CPU consumption) via the (1) loadMovie or (2) loadSound commands which continue to execute until the browser is closed.

Reference

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/128491 http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=22796&Method=Full&Title=Macromedia20Flash20Player20620Streaming20Issue&Cache=False http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4567 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8925