'Since its launch in November 2010, we have not seen a single successful exploit in the wild against Adobe Reader X,' Uhley said. Along with Java and Adobe Reader, Flash Player is one of the most attacked software applications because its vulnerabilities can usually be exploited by simply visiting a malicious website.

The new sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox, which works with Windows Vista and Windows 7, is the result of those efforts.Ĭritical Flash Player vulnerabilities have regularly been exploited to infect computers with malware during the past several years. Later that same year Adobe also launched a sandboxed version of Flash Player for Chrome and promised to explore the possibility of doing the same for other browsers. The technology was built into Adobe Reader X (10.0) and is based on the same sandboxing principles that Google used when developing Chrome.

This type of technology has gained popularity in recent years, primarily because of its use in Google Chrome, a browser that has never experienced a successful remote code execution attack so far.Īdobe decided to implement sandboxing in Adobe Reader back in 2010 in order to counter the large number of exploits that targeted the product and its users. In secure software development, sandboxing refers to the practice of isolating a process from the operating system in order to minimize the fallout of a potential exploit. 'Like the Adobe Reader X sandbox, Flash Player will establish a low integrity, highly restricted process that must communicate through a broker to limit its privileged activities.' 'The design of this sandbox is similar to what Adobe delivered with Adobe Reader X Protected Mode and follows the same Practical Windows Sandboxing approach,' said Peleus Uhley, platform security strategist at Adobe, in a blog post on Monday. Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox, which has better protection against vulnerability exploits because of a new sandboxed architecture.

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