Re: FLASH: F5: Print-action - security issue?

[John Dowdell]

At 11:46 PM 12/6/0, Thorvald Neumann wrote:

> He assumed now it might be possible to start a Denial-Of-Service-attack

> on network-printers from within a Flash movie. What do you think?


That could be an issue, if a print request was initiated and fulfilled

without the visitor's knowledge... it would be like how you can auto-dial a

fax number of have it run out of paper or toner.


In this case, though, we still see the system printing dialog... the

visitor to the site needs to grant permission for a document to print.


(It would be possible for an evil movie to continually throw up

print-request dialogs, true, but it would be simpler to freeze the browser

just by staying in a "while" loop for a month or so.)


jd






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