Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:05:14 -0700 | | From | "Justin P. Mattock" <> | | Subject | Re: PSA: Please update your flash plugin! |
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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@vger.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
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