It means that it doesn't add any risk from any Flash vulnerabilities (those things that come out weekly). Flash vulnerabilities are based on the Flash executable/code/plug-in itself, and Flash will not exist in iOS. Developers and/or the Adobe compiler can create bad code (and it probably will) that may get past the checks that the App Store has in place, but that would not be synonymous with having Flash-specific vulnerabilities. While it is certainly feasible that some crafty individual might find a problem with an Adobe/Flash-sourced iOS app and figure out a way to exploit it, that is not the same as having a Flash-specific vulnerability.
In other words, you won't be able to go to some page with malicious Flash code (.SWF) on it and have it run on iOS. It will simply be ignored, as it always has been. The things that people can create for iOS with Adobe's tools will just be another app. From: Rod Trent [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: FW: US-CERT Current Activity - RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry PlayBook No...I asked "are you sure?" that it would eliminate any vulnerabilities. From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: FW: US-CERT Current Activity - RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry PlayBook Yes. Flash is not being ported to iOS. Even if Adobe wrote it (which they won't), it is highly doubtful Apple would allow it at this point. Adobe is just making a cross-platform compiler for their proprietary code. From: Rod Trent [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: FW: US-CERT Current Activity - RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry PlayBook Are you sure? From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: FW: US-CERT Current Activity - RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry PlayBook The tool to which you refer compiles it into native iOS code. That eliminates any flash-specific vulnerabilities. From: Rod Trent [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: FW: US-CERT Current Activity - RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry PlayBook Not for long. Adobe announced tools to create cross platform apps with Flash yesterday with full capability on iOS. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 9:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FW: US-CERT Current Activity - RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry PlayBook Makes Apple look smart... On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:26 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: Anybody expect anything different? As soon as it was announced that it would run full Flash, that told me that it would also run the full suite of Flash vulnerabilities. -- richard Shauna Hensala <[email protected]> wrote on 06/21/2011 08:19:46 AM: > already.... > > [image removed] Shauna Hensala > > > > > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:13:56 -0400 > > Subject: US-CERT Current Activity - RIM Releases Security Advisory > for BlackBerry PlayBook > > To: [email protected] > > From: [email protected] > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > US-CERT Current Activity > > > > RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry PlayBook > > > > Original release date: June 21, 2011 at 8:41 am > > Last revised: June 21, 2011 at 8:41 am > > > > > > RIM has released a security advisory to address vulnerabilities in the > > Adobe Flash Player version included with the BlackBerry PlayBook > > tablet software. 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