Arthur Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Adobe releases emergency Flash update amid new zero-day drive-by attacks « Ars Technica Adobe has released an emergency update for its widely used Flash Player to combat active attacks that exploit a previously unknown security bug that hackers are actively exploiting to surreptitiously install malware on end-user computers. The PUBLIC download links are shown below. MSI's can be downloaded from the usual place. Release Notes / Security Bulletin (Three critical vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2014-0498, CVE-2014-0499 and CVE-2014-0502) [b]Internet Explorer[/b] http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/support/install_flash_player_ax.exe [b]Plug-in based browsers[/b] (Firefox, Opera etc.) http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/support/install_flash_player.exe [b]Uninstaller[/b] http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe [b]Standalone Projector[/b] http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/updaters/11/flashplayer_11_sa.exe [b]Mac OS X[/b] http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/support/install_flash_player_osx.dmg [b]Android v4.x[/b] http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/android/11.1.115.81/install_flash_player_ics.apk https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer [b]Android v2.x / v3.x[/b] http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/android/11.1.111.73/install_flash_player_pre_ics.apk
Vasriel Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) ugh, just updated this crap a couple of weeks ago due to an emergency update Adobe sucks so much Edited February 20, 2014 by Vasriel
seawolf Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Argh! Adobe Flash is COMPLETELY worthless. I await the day I can dance on Flash Player's grave with glee.
localzuk Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Great. Only just finished getting the last one deployed!!
sted Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Argh! Adobe Flash is COMPLETELY worthless. I await the day I can dance on Flash Player's grave with glee. the sooner flash and java die the happier i will be im sure they onlt exists to give hackers an avenue of attack
free780 Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Flash wooooah! More versions than java and more holes thqn swiss cheese
rich_tech Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Flash 12.0.0.44 caused major issues here with crashing IE for us and were in midst of rolling it back now, so that can take a jump for now. I would love to see flash die too, it's horrible to patch and keep on top of at times, same for IE for me, it's such a horrible and cumbersome browser compared to chrome/mozilla
jamesfed Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 So long as Apple don't go and kill it on all of our iMacs again!!!!
Arthur Posted February 20, 2014 Author Posted February 20, 2014 I would love to see flash die too, it's horrible to patch and keep on top of at times, same for IE for me, it's such a horrible and cumbersome browser compared to chrome/mozilla Upgrade to Windows 8.1 and you won't have to worry about Flash Player updates ever again since IE includes its own copy of the plug-in (like Chrome).
seawolf Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Upgrade to Windows 8.1 and you won't have to worry about Flash Player updates ever again since IE includes its own copy of the plug-in (like Chrome). No, then you just need to worry about IE updates keeping up, and not breaking anything
Arthur Posted February 21, 2014 Author Posted February 21, 2014 No, then you just need to worry about IE updates keeping up, and not breaking anything That's why you should have two browsers installed.
rich_tech Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 I run 8.1 on my office and a home machine and love it, I realise flash seems a lot more stable on 8.1, unfortunately though we use seven here and ie10 for the workstations, I don't fancy putting people through metro because of the stupid upheaval and the amount of hassle it would generate because of the start menu differences.
free780 Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 If you are daring you can allow the built in silent flash updater. But runs as system account and will need internet access. Plus doesn't give you a chance to test.
free780 Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Adobe - Security Notification Service Security is one of our highest priorities. LOL.
3s-gtech Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Local Update Publisher makes this a lot easier to deploy and control, but it is ridiculous how often it needs to be updated. Same as Java - which I only install where absolutely required.
localzuk Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 In my experience, SCUP with flash is a bit of a nightmare. I've stopped using it as it constantly went wrong. We kept ending up with machines which removed the old version and then left the machine without any version installed.
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