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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 >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> > > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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