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* PSA: Please update your flash plugin!
@ 2010-07-30  2:50 Theodore Ts'o
  2010-07-30  4:05 ` Justin P. Mattock
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2010-07-30  2:50 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: linux-kernel, ksummit-2010-discuss


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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* Re: PSA: Please update your flash plugin!
  2010-07-30  2:50 PSA: Please update your flash plugin! Theodore Ts'o
@ 2010-07-30  4:05 ` Justin P. Mattock
  2010-08-01 14:18   ` Boaz Harrosh
  2010-09-16 14:19   ` Justin Mattock
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Justin P. Mattock @ 2010-07-30  4:05 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Theodore Ts'o; +Cc: linux-kernel, ksummit-2010-discuss

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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* Re: PSA: Please update your flash plugin!
  2010-08-01 14:18   ` Boaz Harrosh
@ 2010-08-01 14:17     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
  2010-08-01 17:53     ` Justin P. Mattock
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert @ 2010-08-01 14:17 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Boaz Harrosh
  Cc: Justin P. Mattock, Theodore Ts'o, linux-kernel,
	ksummit-2010-discuss

* Boaz Harrosh (bharrosh@panasas.com) wrote:
> On 07/30/2010 07:05 AM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> > On 07/29/2010 07:50 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

<snip - warning>

> > 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?

nspluginwrapper works well enough for me on Ubuntu, but this
isn't a kernel problem. (It seems to work better for me in Chrome
than ff but hey that's another problem again).

Since there isn't an announced date for if a 64bit version is going
to be available (only a fluffy statement that they intend to do one)
it's a case of having to move back to 32.

See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/11/64_bit_flash_for_linux_dead/

Dave
-- 
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/ Dr. David Alan Gilbert    |       Running GNU/Linux       | Happy  \ 
\ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org |                               | In Hex /
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* Re: PSA: Please update your flash plugin!
  2010-07-30  4:05 ` Justin P. Mattock
@ 2010-08-01 14:18   ` Boaz Harrosh
  2010-08-01 14:17     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
  2010-08-01 17:53     ` Justin P. Mattock
  2010-09-16 14:19   ` Justin Mattock
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Boaz Harrosh @ 2010-08-01 14:18 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Justin P. Mattock; +Cc: Theodore Ts'o, linux-kernel, ksummit-2010-discuss

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@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
> --

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

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: PSA: Please update your flash plugin!
  2010-08-01 14:18   ` Boaz Harrosh
  2010-08-01 14:17     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
@ 2010-08-01 17:53     ` Justin P. Mattock
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Justin P. Mattock @ 2010-08-01 17:53 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Boaz Harrosh; +Cc: Theodore Ts'o, linux-kernel, ksummit-2010-discuss

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
>>> --
>>> 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
>> --
>
> 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

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: PSA: Please update your flash plugin!
  2010-07-30  4:05 ` Justin P. Mattock
  2010-08-01 14:18   ` Boaz Harrosh
@ 2010-09-16 14:19   ` Justin Mattock
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Justin Mattock @ 2010-09-16 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Theodore Ts'o; +Cc: linux-kernel, ksummit-2010-discuss, bharrosh

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Justin P. Mattock
<justinmattock@gmail.com> 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@vger.kernel.org
>> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
>> Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>>

o.k. looks like the x86_64 people are not left out in the cold...:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html


-- 
Justin P. Mattock

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2010-07-30  4:05 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-08-01 14:18   ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-08-01 14:17     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2010-08-01 17:53     ` Justin P. Mattock
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