Security: Macromedia Flash 7.0.63- question
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Mar 26 14:10:47 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 06:37 -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> > Macromedia recently released an update to their binary-only browser
> > plugin to address CVE-2006-0024.
> >
> > http://macromedia.mplug.org/
> > I have an official agreement with Macromedia to repackage their binary
> > for easy integration into Fedora and make it available in a yum
> > repository here.
> >
> > FC5 users will want to upgrade to flash-plugin-7.0.63-1 in order
> > properly handle firefox-1.5.x contained in FC5 in addition to closing
> > this security issue.
> >
> > Warren Togami
> > wtogami at redhat.com
> Well here is the thing. I could not find the flash-plugin-7.0.63-1 in
> any of the repos. So I went to http://macromedia.mplug.org/ and found
> I could download the Fedora rpm. On the web-page it says to put the rpm
> in the /etc/yum.repo.d directory and then run: yum install flash-plugin.
> Well that seemed strange but I gave it a shot and it did not work.
> Is it supposed to work?
>
That seems rather strange as a way to install something.
I have never tried it, but would not expect that to work without some
twiddling with paths, commands, etc.
> In the end I installed the rpm the old fashioned way using rpm -Uvh
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