Adobe Flash Plug-in Update

[Chris]

On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 10:33 +0200, iceblink wrote:
> On 2015-07-15 04:03, Chris wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> 
> The versions that contained the vulnerability are 11.2.202.481 and 
> earlier.
> 
> The fixed version is not yet available for Linux, only for other 
> platforms. It is expected this week though.
> 
> Ref: 
> https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-18.html
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Patrick
> 

So apparently Ubuntu pushed the update at the same time as the
vulnerability was discovered? 

Chris
 
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