[arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

[Daniel Micay]

On 16/07/15 12:06 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:10:33 +0100, Ben Oliver wrote:
>> I have to agree with Ralf, you will be fine.
>>
>> I have been flash-free for 18 months now and it's going absolutely
>> fine. Unless you have a penchant for flash games, there's very little
>> reason to have it installed any more.
> 
> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/14/facebook-end-adobe-flash-firefox-blocks-hacking

Mozilla blocked the vulnerable version, as they've done in the past. The
current release isn't blocked because there aren't yet disclosed
security vulnerabilities.

Google bundles the PPAPI Flash player with Chrome so they don't need a
comparable blacklist as it gets updated with the browser.

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