From: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: PSA: Please update your flash plugin!
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:05:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C524F7A.20505@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1OefgE-0005vu-JN@tytso-glaptop>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-30 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-30 2:50 PSA: Please update your flash plugin! Theodore Ts'o
2010-07-30 4:05 ` Justin P. Mattock [this message]
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
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