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Adobe confirms major Flash vulnerability
- jasode 11y agoDoes vulnerability also affect Google Chrome's builtin Flash player? EDIT: Answer is YES. The link provided by 0x0 says it also affects Google Chrome's Flash and there's an update for it.
- simonh 11y agoIt seems likely. 1. Go to URL chrome://plugins 2. Click Disable
- greggman 11y agoWhy does it seem likely?
- simonh 11y agoBecause they say all versions are affected.
- zxv 11y agoOr block flash on all except whitelisted sites using flashcontrol, free in the chrome web store: https://goo.gl/Q0hLm https://goo.gl/Q0hLm
- jonknee 11y agoAn extension isn't needed for that. Make it click-to-play ("Let me choose when to run plugin content") and then you can add any site you want to the exceptions list. An icon displays in the address bar when a plugin is on the page, click it and you can easily add the site to your exceptions list.
- cpncrunch 11y agoThe security bulletin has now been updated, and says the update will be available on Oct 16 (today).
- panarky 11y agoJust one day after Adobe released its monthly security patches for various software including Flash Player, the company confirmed a major security vulnerability that affects all versions of Flash for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. You read that correctly… all versions. Just uninstall this clusterfuck and be done with it.
- jeff_tyrrill 11y agoAlthough I agree with your negative assessment of Flash in general, the quoted bit "You read that correctly... all versions" is meaningless hyperbolic bluster. I would hope a cross-platform product is using a unified codebase to maximize compatibility and minimize development and test surface. That, of course, will tend to mean that bugs exhibit the same behavior cross-platform. (And to the extent that by "all versions", it is including past versions, that's even worse, as it implies that staying on an old version is ever advisable.) It's irresponsible journalism to mislead about the nature of software products like this.
- 0x0 11y agoPatches available: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-27.html https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb1...
- jacquesm 11y agoIt'd be interesting to know (and the article doesn't seem to make it clear either) whether or not they're going to update the Linux flash player. If not then flash on linux is instantly dead, which would break quite a few websites.
- wanderfowl 11y agoIt's patched: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-27.html https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb1...
- raimille1 11y agoFlash is still a thing?
- brianclements 11y agoI uninstalled flash completely from all my systems upon the last major vulnerability news. My biggest loss? No videos in Facebook, which seems to have been fixed recently anyway. I'm chillin.
- arrowgunz 11y agoGetting rid of Flash on iOS was the best decision Apple had ever taken. It is a fact that Flash is a pretty unsecure platform. Companies should stop using flash and put an end to it mess.