Re:HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla
by reissbaker on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @09:43PM
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The attack surface isn't increased. If you can exploit the vulnerability using Shumway, you could also exploit the vulnerability using vanilla JS — because Shumway is just Javascript. Shumway doesn't allow new exploits that are impossible without Shumway.
Shumway decreases the attack surface of Firefox for general-purpose browsing: most people would install Flash otherwise, and this way that (infamously broad) attack vector is removed.
Shumway decreases the attack surface of Firefox for general-purpose browsing: most people would install Flash otherwise, and this way that (infamously broad) attack vector is removed.