Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player (APSB18-42) for Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS. These updates address one critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and one important vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player installer. Successful exploitation could lead to Arbitrary Code Execution and privilege escalation respectively. Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions using the instructions referenced in the security bulletin.
There should not be a problem if updates are installed normally.
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gm10 wrote: ⤴Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:17 pm
Slow day? There are critical vulnerabilities in Flash every day, hardly newsworthy. The only good solution is to uninstall it.
Poor Adobe, they want to discontinue Flash so badly but instead they on full time bug fix duty until 2020 when they finally can. That's gotta hurt the bottom line.
if you don't have Flash capability, nearly 50% of the web videos are not viewable.
i uninstalled flash, adobe flash, pepperflash etc almost 3 years ago and to date, have not been asked or told that flash is required to be able to view any video on the web...and i have a ton of bookmarks of news services, video services, assorted web sites etc...everyone of them are html5...do you have a few examples of the 50% of sites you mention here so i can try them for myself?...i dont think im missing anything but you never know...lol...DAMIEN
DAMIEN1307 wrote: ⤴Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:50 pm
hi AZg...you said,
if you don't have Flash capability, nearly 50% of the web videos are not viewable.
i uninstalled flash, adobe flash, pepperflash etc almost 3 years ago and to date, have not been asked or told that flash is required to be able to view any video on the web...and i have a ton of bookmarks of news services, video services, assorted web sites etc...everyone of them are html5...do you have a few examples of the 50% of sites you mention here so i can try them for myself?...i dont think im missing anything but you never know...lol...DAMIEN
Pretty much this. I haven't had to use flash in a long long time. Nothing I use needs it. None of the popular video sites needs it. The only site still using flash that I've seen in recent times is some remote fishing webcam another user on this forum had trouble with the other day.
Flash has been deprecated for a long time now, Adobe will discontinue it in a year's time, and if you know of websites still behind the time best tell them to get a clue if they want you to visit them.
Never knew this. How do I disable / uninstall Adobe? Is it installed automatically in Firefox?
I checked online and statistics show that only 4% of current websites use adobeflash, yet weirdly enouhg google.com etc are mentioned as sites that still use it. Google Chrome in 2018 allows use of adobeflash as well.
That's not the default flash package installed on Mint, nor the official adobe one. Also I have a feeling it will only remove that installer, not the plugin.
The official package for mint users as installed by mint-meta-codecs is adobe-flashplugin, as mentioned above.
i had to do this to stop my system from trying to install flash updates even after already uninstalling flash from my system...thats why i posted it...the system kept trying to install flash updates until i did this. it is also found in synaptic for removal.
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DAMIEN1307 wrote: ⤴Sat Dec 08, 2018 1:37 pm
it stopped my system from trying to install flash updates even after already uninstalling flash from my system...thats why i posted it...the system kept trying to install flash updates until i did this. it is also found in synaptic for removal.
Sure. I just meant to point out that by default users won't have that package, but if they did install it then they'll have to remove it (instead of or in addition to the other one).
i remember in 2016 everyone was so scared that adobe will not support flash anymore for linux now everyone is scared that cyber-terrorist will invade their computers and change the toaster level from light to dark burned to a crisp . haven't upgraded it since then and will never upgrade it again. same with firefox. i'm a chrome user now, i only keep firefox on my system for the nostalgia of how things used to be.
trytip wrote: ⤴Sat Dec 08, 2018 2:09 pm
i remember in 2016 everyone was so scared that adobe will not support flash anymore for linux now everyone is scared that cyber-terrorist will invade their computers and change the toaster level from light to dark burned to a crisp . haven't upgraded it since then and will never upgrade it again. same with firefox. i'm a chrome user now, i only keep firefox on my system for the nostalgia of how things used to be.
