Re: PSA: Please update your flash plugin!

[Justin P. Mattock]

On 08/01/2010 07:18 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> 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


right now I decided to just run the 32bit flash through qemu-kvm either 
a windows install or an x86_32 linux distro this way I can watch hulu 
stream TV etc..

Justin P. Mattock
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