Adobe Flash Plug-in Update

[Eero Volotinen]

Firefox blocks flash, because it contains two critical security issues
without patches available.


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Eero

2015-07-15 5:03 GMT+03:00 Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com>:

> As a lot of you have realized by now Firefox is blocking the activation
> to the Flash Plug-in due to a 0 day hack (from what I read anyway). The
> version that is being blocked on my Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS running Firefox
> 39.0 is
>
> Flash Player Plugin on Linux 11.2.202.481 (click-to-play) has been
> blocked for your protection.
>
> Now this evening I had an update to the flash plug-in however it makes
> no sense:
>
> Start-Date: 2015-07-14  19:39:19
> Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-commit-packages' sender=':1.148'
> Upgrade: flashplugin-installer:amd64 (11.2.202.481ubuntu0.14.04.1,
> 11.2.202.481ubuntu0.14.04.2)
>
> Why would Ubuntu upgrade the plug-in to the version that is being
> blocked by Firefox in the first place?
>
> Chris
>
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