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Date:	Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:18:31 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
CC:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ksummit-2010-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: PSA: Please update your flash plugin!

On 07/30/2010 07:05 AM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 07:50 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> This is a public service announcement --- if you are running Flash 10.0,
>> make sure you upgrade to 10.1.  Flash 10.0 has a horrible security
>> vulnerability:
>>
>> 	http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html
>>
>> I have Google Analytics running on the ksummit2010 website, and in
>> addition to discovering that 59% used Firefox and 25% were using Chrome,
>> and that the most popular screen resolution was 1280x800 followed by
>> 1280x1024, etc. --- I also was able to find that while 59% were running
>> Flash 10.1, over 40% of the visitors to the ksummit2010 web site were
>> running a vulnerable version of Adobe flash, which has a remote code
>> execution vulerability.
>>
>> If you were visiting that site from your development system, which you
>> use to push changes to a subsystem maintianer, or even Linus, hopefully
>> I don't need to tell you what a bad idea it is to leave yourself open
>> and vulnerable like this.  (This particular security problem with Flash
>> has been announced for almost 2 months at this point!)
>>
>> 						- Ted
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> 
> 
> biggest problem here is they havn't updated their x86_64(pure64) version 
> yet. hopefully hey release an update soon.
> 
> Justin P. Mattock
> --

Here too. How do I run (any) Flash-10.1 on a 64bit system (say FC12) without
actually reverting to a 32bit browser? Do I still get to install half of my
system as 32bit duplicates?

Boaz
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