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April ’16 security fixes for Adobe Flash

adobe_flash_8s600x600_2Yesterday Adobe issued a new Flash player  security update .The update addresses a zero-day vulnerability which is actively exploited – installing crypto ransomware on Windows computers. No idea about the relevance of that for the Linux platform but I created packages anyway.

There’s a new Linux Flash Player plugin as well as a Chromium PepperFlash addon. The new plugin for the Chromium browser (chromium-pepperflash-plugin) has the version number 21.0.0.213. The plugin for Mozilla browsers (flashplayer-plugin) has version 11.2.202.616.

My download locations for the Flash plugin packages are as always:

If you are using the slackpkg+ extension for slackpkg, then you just run “slackpkg update && slackpkg upgrade flash”. Alternatively, you can subscribe to my repository RSS feed to stay informed of any updates.

Eric

3 Comments

  1. gegechris99

    Thanks for the quick update.
    Please note that the slackpkg command should be:
    "slackpkg update && slackpkg upgrade flash"

  2. alienbob

    Fixed, thanks.

  3. Niki Kovacs

    Adobe should consider renaming their Flash plugin to Tamagotchi plugin. :o)

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