Adobe Flash Plug-in Update

[iceblink]

On 2015-07-15 15:11, Gene Heskett 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
> 
> According to this page, the updated version for linux was released on 
> the
> 12th, Monday.  So I follow the link to the download, using latest 
> wheezy
> iceweasel, click on it, and get a javascript:void(0) just by hovering
> over the download button.  And nothing is done on the click.
> 
Only the Chrome Linux version update was released so far.
The generic Linux version will be released "during the week of July 12", 
i.e. somewhere this week.

Best regards,
Patrick