With Adobe’s latest crasher bug going on two years after being discovered, Adobe finally released a statement saying they in fact dropped the ball during software development of Adobe Flash 10.
Did Adobe just ignore a well known and significant flaw in their software and in turn ship a degraded Flash player out to the masses?
Emmy Huang, Product Manager for Adobe Flash Player, blogged it like this:
We picked up the bug as a crasher when it was filed on September 22, 2008, and were able to reproduce it. Remember that Flash Player 10 shipped in October 2008, so when this bug was reported we were pretty much locked and loaded for launch. The mistake we made was marking this bug for “next” release, which is the soon to be released Flash Player 10.1, instead of marking it for the next Flash Player 10 security dot release. We should have kept in contact with the submitter and to let him know the progress, sorry we did not do that.
It’s really difficult to believe that a software bug of this magnitude, one that crashes a widely used product like Adobe Flash, would fly under the development radar and do so for nearly 18 months on a small oversight.
“Locked and loaded for launch”? This type of product flaw should have never ‘knowingly’ made it to the consumer. FAIL.
