Re: PSA: Please update your flash plugin!

[Justin Mattock]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Justin P. Mattock
<justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> 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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o.k. looks like the x86_64 people are not left out in the cold...:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html


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