A security bulletin that was released 4 days ago by Adobe says that the Flash Player used by the Internet Channel on the Wii can be hacked due to an input validation error in the flash. Could hackers launch some kind of homebrew? Nintendo will have to pay for this problem, so the problem might not be patched in time for the hackers to work their magic.

A security bulletin released 4 days ago by Adobe, tells us that the Flash Player used by the Internet Channel can be exploited to execute arbitrary code because of an input validation error in flash. This might be a opening for hackers to create some kind of homebrew launcher, and Nintendo has to pay to get a unaffected version of the Flash player from Adobe. This means that this security hole might not be patched as fast as the last one.

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