Urgent: Patch Adobe Flashto Protect against Zero-Day Exploit

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#2 Post by wuwei »

Thanks for the warning, James.

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#3 Post by Lobster »

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#4 Post by faifpuhp »

Done! (Man, that was fast...)

You know, there's no reason that Adobe couldn't have a ton of experimental versions with known exploits laying around, specifically to let people take over your computer. Not saying they would! But there's no reason they couldn't, and it would look like an innocent mistake on their part :D Like a poison in two parts, where either alone is innocuous.
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#5 Post by big_bass »

flash updater script

keep updated always

just un compress it then
and click on flash-updater

it asks if you want to install click ok
it take a few minutes because it downloads the file then installs it in the background
when its done a box pops up for 3 seconds and says its done

hope this makes it easier
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#6 Post by DPUP5520 »

Didn't download the latest version, it redownloaded 10.3.183.7 so maybe the site just doesn't update flash all that quick. Also it might be a good idea to

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rm -fr /usr
or whatever the command would be since it does no good in there anyway and just takes up space.
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#7 Post by faifpuhp »

DPUP5520 wrote: Also it might be a good idea to

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rm -fr /usr
or whatever the command would be
?! You'll want to explain that one, most of the time (in other distros, for example) you probably would not want to do that...
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#8 Post by DPUP5520 »

sorry I put the / there by mistake i mean to put

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rm -fr usr 
which would delete the usr folder from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder, I think.
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#9 Post by nooby »

dpup wow you mean we still ahve the old one then?
I felt so happy that now I have a patched version but if I get you
we still ahve the old one? So what to do?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#10 Post by faifpuhp »

DPUP5520 wrote:sorry I put the / there by mistake i mean to put

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rm -fr usr 
which would delete the usr folder from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder, I think.
perhaps

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rm -fr ../plugins/usr 
just to be sure? that way if you're not in the right folder, it (probably) won't delete anything
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#11 Post by DPUP5520 »

I suppose but if you take a look at the script it already changes to that directory so that it can download and install the lib in there and then delete the tar'd file so there should be no need for writing out the whole path though it couldn't hurt

Edit: just modified the script and tested adding in

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rm -fr usr
underneath line 13 does the trick
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#12 Post by faifpuhp »

DPUP5520 wrote:I suppose but if you take a look at the script it already changes to that directory
I missed that part, gotcha now.
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