Adobe Flash Plug-in Update

[Dave Woyciesjes]

> On Wednesday 15 July 2015 04:33:50 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

	However, I'm assuming that removing Adobe Flash, and just using gnash 
is fine?

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