On 26/06/2015 08:12, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:02:00 -0700 walt wrote: >> Title: Adobe Releases Emergency to Patch Zero Day Under Active >> Exploitation in the Wild >> Description: Adobe released an out-of-band patch to address >> CVE-2015-3113, a Flash Player zero-day vulnerability that is actively >> being used by an APT group. The exploit has been ongoing since early >> this month via phishing emails and affects Windows, Mac, and Linux >> users. CVE-2015-3113 is a vulnerability in the way Flash parses Flash >> Video Files (FLV). The exploit bypasses memory-based protection such >> as ASLR and uses return-oriented programming (ROP) to bypass data >> execution prevention (DEP). >> Reference: >> https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-14.html >> >> I see that the gentoo devs have already added the latest version to my >> ~amd64 machine (thanks, team) but what about all the people who are >> running stable gentoo? > > Taking how intensive vulnerability rate for adobe-flash is and > considering its closed nature (e.g. no ability to fix issues in > time yourself) I'd recommend to avoid its use at all. For cases > where it can't be replaced (e.g. with gnash or html5-compatible > browser) use isolated container or vm.
I was going to answer much the same, you beat me to it :-) Flash's track record puts packagers in a very awkward position - the manpower to keep up with patches in a reasonable timeframe is just too much. So the devs do the best they can but ultimately the user must make a hard decision (convenience vs security) and accept full consequences of their decision. I personally think that stable Flash is a joke and it's one of those packages that a user must keyword. Or invest the time/effort in your other suggestion of an isolated browser. Tough choice, but that's how it goes with such software -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
