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