Flash Emergency-update..once again

[donald]

Emergency Patch / update for adobe's flash player
"Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2016-1010 is being used
in limited, targeted attacks."
Affected Versions = 11.2.202.569 and earlier
newest version = 11.2.202.577
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/produc ... 16-08.html

.....better to remove this crap....

[francois]

As usm does not provide the most recent package:

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root@porteus:~# usm -g flash

 The following items were found.
 Choose an number to confirm. 
 ctrl+c to quit

1) flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.481-x86_64-1sl.txz
2) flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-x86_64-1gv.txz
3) flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.569-x86_64-1alien.txz
#? 

Is there a porteus solution? Is it different for google-chrome, firefox, etc.?

Thanks.

[Ed_P]

oops

[bour59]

suggestion :
before searchinw with usm
consider updating databases
so alien provides flash 577

[Ed_P]

An excellent suggest bour59.

[Slaxmax]

Flash in firefox never more, stopped in version 11
I prefer pepperflash + chromium.

chromium slackware package
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/chromium/

flash player (pepperflash) latest version
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbu ... sh-plugin/


Note:
Pepper Flash Player is maintained by Google, and is newer than Adobe Flash Player. Adobe currently still provides security fixes for Adobe Flash Player. Google provides newer features in Pepper Flash Player. Pepper Flash Player can currently only be used with Chromium (and with Chrome).

[Bogomips]

After update usm still cannot reach alien. Just download independently: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbu ... /pkg/14.1/

[Ed_P]

USM alien module

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Fatal error

LIBS.TXT

[brokenman]

I am updating the alien repo manually now. Seems the taper address is rejecting my rsync requests.

[Ed_P]

I am updating the alien repo manually now.

That worked. Alien's flashplayer 577 downloaded fine. Thank you brokenman.

[bour59]

slackware-current (latest)
get from /extra/flashplayer-plugin/flashplayer-plugin.Slackbuilds

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# Determine the latest version by checking the web page:
VERSION=${VERSION:-"$(wget -O - http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ 2>/dev/null | sed -n "/Firefox - NPAPI/{N;p}" | tr -d ' '| tail -1 | tr '<>' '  ' | cut -f3 -d ' ')"}
echo "version = "$version

thanks Alienbob

[alienbob]

I am updating the alien repo manually now. Seems the taper address is rejecting my rsync requests.

You should read my blog more often, I explained everything there.
New rsync mirror is rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/

Eric

[francois]

@eric:
Thanks for coming around. Your help is really appreciated.

[Bogomips]

@ francois
Thought you were the blog reader.

[Ed_P]

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# Determine the latest version by checking the web page:
VERSION=${VERSION:-"$(wget -O - http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ 2>/dev/null | sed -n "/Firefox - NPAPI/{N;p}" | tr -d ' '| tail -1 | tr '<>' '  ' | cut -f3 -d ' ')"}
echo "version = "$version

A clever piece of code. Thank you for posting it. But the last line needs to be

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echo "version = "$VERSION

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This additional code works for me.

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echo "Latest version = "$VERSION
LIVE=`grep "flashplayer" /var/log/porteus-livedbg|tail -n1|sed 's^//^/^g'`
LIVE=${LIVE:48}
echo "Using version = "$LIVE