Adobe Flash Player package fixes several security issues

[registerdown]

Hi all,

Today Adobe released a fix for proprietary the flash player which also closes critical Linux issues. Redhat has realsed a fix for it: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/3552/

It this something I should worry about if I have a flash player via synaptic installed in Ubuntu 8.10? (I am a newbie!!):o

[bodhi.zazen]

Thank you for the information.

If the Ubuntu packages are affected I would expect a fix shortly.

You might also consider filing a security "bug" on Launchpad.

You could either disable flash or if you prefer, install the update from adobe.

I would not install a Red hat .rpm w./ alien.

[cdenley]

An update fixing the bugs mentioned and more appears to have been released last week.
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-nonfree_10.0.22.87ubuntu1~intrepid1/changelog


flashplugin-nonfree (10.0.22.87ubuntu1~intrepid1) intrepid-security; urgency=low

* SECURITY UPDATE: New upstream release 10.0.22.87
- debian/config, debian/postinst: Updated for sha256sums.
- CVE-2009-0114
- CVE-2009-0519
- CVE-2009-0520
- CVE-2009-0522
- CVE-2009-0521

-- Jamie Strandboge <jamie@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:08:27 -0600

[registerdown]

Hi bodhi.zazen and cdenley - thanks for your quick answers! Great to see that this update has already been relased - I love Ubuntu!:D

Now I also learned I can check the changelogs here: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/