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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

  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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