Adobe Flash Plug-in Update

[Mark Haney]

IIRC, Adobe isn't doing any more updates on Flash for linux.  In fact, I
think they've even dropped doing security updates for linux Flash versions
as well.  Though, I avoid Flash like the plague on every platform.


On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> 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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