Greetings, There are aspects of the flashplugin-nonfree package I am hoping to understand better in respect to installing the latest security updates for the Adobe Flash plugin on a Debian host.
Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 (jessie) firefox-esr 45.2.0esr-1~deb8u1 amd64 flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.6.1 amd64 'update-flashplugin-nonfree --status` shows a newer release of the plugin upstream. options : --verbose --status -- temporary directory: /tmp/flashplugin-nonfree.65hpQUuxtV importing public key ... selected action = --status Flash Player version installed on this system : 11.2.202.626 Flash Player version available on upstream site: 22.0.0.209 flash-mozilla.so - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so - priority 50 Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so'. end of action --status cleaning up temporary directory /tmp/flashplugin-nonfree.65hpQUuxtV ... end of update-flashplugin-nonfree http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ confirms that this 11.2.202.626 version is installed and shows the latest supported package for this system (Linux, Firefox - NPAPI (Extended Support Release) 11.2.202.632 (slightly newer, 632 > 626). Flash objects in Firefox are also replaced with the warning dialog noting that the Flash plugin is outdated. 'update-flashplugin-nonfree --install' however does not result in the most recent update being installed: options : --verbose --install -- temporary directory: /tmp/flashplugin-nonfree.1LM79N9U0I importing public key ... selected action = --install installed version = 11.2.202.626 upstream version = 22.0.0.209 wgetoptions= -nd -P . -v --progress=dot:default downloading http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/D5C0FC14/fp.22.0.0.209.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc ... --2016-08-01 07:53:23-- http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/D5C0FC14/fp.22.0.0.209.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc Resolving people.debian.org (people.debian.org)... 5.153.231.30, 2001:41c8:1000:21::21:30 Connecting to people.debian.org (people.debian.org)|5.153.231.30|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/D5C0FC14/fp.22.0.0.209.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc [following] --2016-08-01 07:53:24-- https://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/D5C0FC14/fp.22.0.0.209.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc Connecting to people.debian.org (people.debian.org)|5.153.231.30|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2016-08-01 07:53:24 ERROR 404: Not Found. wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/D5C0FC14/fp.22.0.0.209.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc downloading http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/D5C0FC14/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc ... --2016-08-01 07:53:24-- http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/D5C0FC14/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc Resolving people.debian.org (people.debian.org)... 5.153.231.30, 2001:41c8:1000:21::21:30 Connecting to people.debian.org (people.debian.org)|5.153.231.30|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/D5C0FC14/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc [following] --2016-08-01 07:53:25-- https://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/D5C0FC14/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc Connecting to people.debian.org (people.debian.org)|5.153.231.30|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1250 (1.2K) [text/plain] Saving to: ‘./fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc’ 0K . 100% 254K=0.005s 2016-08-01 07:53:25 (254 KB/s) - ‘./fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc’ saved [1250/1250] verifying PGP fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc ... copying /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz ... verifying checksum install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz ... wgetoptions= -nd -P . -v --progress=dot:default -O /tmp/flashplugin-nonfree.1LM79N9U0I/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz downloading https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.626/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz ... verifying checksum install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz ... unpacking install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz ... verifying checksum contents of install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz ... moving libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree ... setting permissions and ownership of /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so ... Flash Player version: 11.2.202.626 moving install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz to /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree ... flash-mozilla.so - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so - priority 50 Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so'. calling update-alternatives ... flash-mozilla.so - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so - priority 50 Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so'. removing /usr/bin/flash-player-properties removing /usr/share/applications/flash-player-properties.desktop removing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/flash-player-properties.png removing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/flash-player-properties.png removing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/flash-player-properties.png removing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/flash-player-properties.png removing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/flash-player-properties.png removing /usr/share/pixmaps/flash-player-properties.png installing /usr/bin/flash-player-properties installing /usr/share/applications/flash-player-properties.desktop installing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/flash-player-properties.png installing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/flash-player-properties.png installing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/flash-player-properties.png installing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/flash-player-properties.png installing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/flash-player-properties.png installing /usr/share/pixmaps/flash-player-properties.png end of action --install cleaning up temporary directory /tmp/flashplugin-nonfree.1LM79N9U0I ... end of update-flashplugin-nonfree It appears that the updated Flash plugin version fails to be fetched/verified because of a 404 on the Debian server. This updated version doesn't appear to be the one that would work with Firefox on Linux anyway, as that would be 11.2.202.632. However when update-flashplugin-nonfree fetches and installs an 11.x version, it drops in the slightly older 11.2.202.626 version which is still considered vulnerable in the browser. Is there a way for this to be corrected? -- Darren Spruell [email protected]
