Re: [packman] flash-player 11.2.202.616-1.1 (openSUSE Tumbleweed/x86_64)

[David Haller]

Hello,

On Sat, 04 Jun 2016, S.W.B. wrote:
>Hello, would it be possible to update flash-player to the latest version
>11.2.202.621? Firefox is preventing flash from running because of a security
>issue with the older 11.2.202.616 available in Packman. Thanks!

I package flash-player for quite some while now for all versions from
12.1 to Tumbleweed (both 32bit and 64bit). My Repo:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dnh/

11.2.202.616 is obsolete by now, 11.2.202.626 is the current version
as of yesterday.

I regularly have the update available before official updates from
(open)SUSE for SLE/13.x:NonFree. C.f.: 
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984695
https://software.opensuse.org/package/flash-player
(you need to "open" the unsupported distros, as "openSUSE Tumbleweed"
is there twice, once "official" and once "inofficial", the latter
being where the home:* repos appear, e.g. my repo).

BTW: the .spec is not originally from me, but copied/derived from the
then "offical" version[0] and IIRC kept in sync, but building for all
distro-versions since 12.1. The actual software is a binary blob, so
it's just packaging tweaks anyway. As I'm often faster than
Maintainance stuff for 13.x and those repos are weird, I do not "link"
to those but maintain my own repo-version, but usually, I keep the
changelog in sync (not today for .626 yet), adding the proper
(open)SUSE Bugzilla (bnc#), APSB and CVE entries. Ah, by now it's
there for 13.2:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:13.2:NonFree:Update/flash-player/flash-player.changes?expand=1
(committed ~12hrs ago as of "now")
vs.
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:dnh/flash-player/flash-player.changes?expand=1
(committed ~15hrs ago as of "now")

HTH,
-dnh

[0] e.g. 
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:13.2:NonFree:Update/flash-player

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[packman] flash-player

[Bo Simonsen]

Hi

It seems like the flash-player included in packman has a security 
vulnerability, anybody up for upgrading? By the way, it will install for 
LEAP as recommended (when running zypper inr). Since it is a 32-bit 
version I don't think it makes sense. Why is the package there at all? 
The flash-plugin package by Adobe seems to work out fine and is updated.


Bo


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