Adobe Patches Flash Flaw Targeted by Exploit in the Wild

Intego.com ^ | April 14th, 2015 | by Derek Erwin

[Varmint Al]

I use Linux Mint and FireFox. One can use only HTML5 to view YouTube videos. It is an easy AddOn.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[Don W]

I’ve noticed that the weekly (it seems) Adobe update is nearly always ~16K.

It’s like they are just seeing if your ‘puter is still connected, and/or what you’ve been doing.

[zeugma]

At least it's easy to update with yum...

sudo yum update flash-plugin
[sudo] password for zeugma:
Loaded plugins: langpacks
adobe-linux-x86_64                                                                                    |  951 B  00:00:00    
livna                                                                                                 | 1.3 kB  00:00:00    
rpmfusion-free-updates                                                                                | 2.7 kB  00:00:00    
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                                                             | 2.7 kB  00:00:00    
updates/21/x86_64/metalink                                                                            |  15 kB  00:00:00    
No packages marked for update
 

[Swordmaker]

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

Thanks for the information, Al.

[tubebender]

I’m running 10.7.5 on a iMac.

[TheBattman]

So - in the shortest form possible, how come Adobe/Flash is such a hotbed of corruption and vulnerabilities? Are they run by former Microsoft techs? Ugh