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Microsoft Internet Explorer Macromedia Flash Player Plug-in Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

It has been reported that Macromedia Flash Player for Internet Explorer may be prone to a denial of service vulnerability that may cause an instance of Internet Explorer to crash. The issue is reported to exist in the 'LoadMovie' function by calling the function and loading a flash movie into a non-zero level in the following manner:

LoadMovie 1,"c6ool.swf"

This vulnerability is reported to be tested in Flash Player 7.0 r19 running on WindowsXP Professional SP1 and SP2.