[SOLVED] SM 2.33.1 says Flash 11.2.202.468 is 11.2.202.460

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[SOLVED] SM 2.33.1 says Flash 11.2.202.468 is 11.2.202.460

Post by Walter Dnes »

Seamonkey is putting up warnings that the current version is vulnerable, and that I
need an update. I'm running Seamonkey 2.33.1 running 64-bit Gentoo on an 8-year-old Core 2 Duo.
"about:plugins" says...

File: libflashplayer.so
Path: /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Version: 11.2.202.460
State: Enabled (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

...but, but, but I *KNOW* have 11.2.202.468 installed. And Gentoo agrees with me. Just to make sure there weren't multiple copies, I ran the command...

find / -name libflashplayer.so

and found ounly 1 copy. I went to Adobe's website, and downloaded the current linux x86_64 Flash. According to the Adobe website, it's 11.2.202.468. I ran "diff -bs" against my current libflashplayer.so and the one I extracted. They're byte-for-byte identical. I also ran...

"strings libflashplayer.so | grep 202"

4 of the lines returned were...

FlashPlayer_11_2_202_468_FlashPlayer
LNX 11,2,202,468
11.2.202.468
drm/%s/%s/%s/11.2.202.468%s

To summarize; I'm running Flash 11.2.202.468, but Seamonkey thinks it's 11.2.202.460, which triggers a vulnerability warning.
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Re: Smonkey 2.33.1 says linux Flash 11.2.202.468 is 11.2.202

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Try: completely quit SeaMonkey, then delete pluginreg.dat from your profile folder?
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[SOLVED] SM 2.33.1 says linux Flash 11.2.202.468 is 11.2.202

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Thank you very much. That worked. I had already tried quitting all instances of Seamonkey
("killall seamonkey")
and restarting, but that wasn't sufficient. What finally worked was...

killall seamonkey
cd ~/.mozilla
find "." -name pluginreg.dat -delete

I have 19 separate profiles, to isolate various activities. That's why I used "find" instead of deleting manually. There are a couple of forums I frequent that randomly peg a CPU core to 100% (bleeping javascript, and they won't function without it). Having separate profiles allows me to kill the offending browser without killing everything else. I use "top c" in an xterm to find the offenders. "about:plugins" now shows...

File: libflashplayer.so
Path: /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Version: 11.2.202.468
State: Enabled
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
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Re: [SOLVED] SM 2.33.1 says Flash 11.2.202.468 is 11.2.202.4

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One trick that can help get SeaMonkey/Firefox to detect the new version of Flash on Linux is to type about:plugins in Location (address) bar.
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Re: [SOLVED] SM 2.33.1 says Flash 11.2.202.468 is 11.2.202.4

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James wrote:One trick that can help get SeaMonkey/Firefox to detect the new version of Flash on Linux is to type about:plugins in Location (address) bar.

I did exactly that in the first post of this thread, and it was showing .460 when it should've been .468. This was after killing all seamonkey instanecs and re-starting. barbaz suggested zapping the pluginreg.dat files. That hits Seamonkey over the head and forces it to do a fresh read on what's available.
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Re: [SOLVED] SM 2.33.1 says Flash 11.2.202.468 is 11.2.202.4

Post by James »

hmm sorry I missed that. This trick does work for me if I manually placed a new libflashplayer.so in ~ .mozilla/plughins/ folder while SeaMonkey/Firefox was still running even.
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Re: [SOLVED] SM 2.33.1 says Flash 11.2.202.468 is 11.2.202.4

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One non-standard thing that I do may be related to this. I tend to have multiple tabs open, over a few browser instances, following several threads on a few forums. Rather than exiting Seamonkey the standard way, I use the linux "kill" command to shut down the browser instance. When I restart that profile, Seamonkey offers to "restore the session". I love it, because I usually have several threads open in some forums, and it takes me back to exactly where I was in those threads. I wonder if it takes "restore the session" too literally, and restores the values that it had read before in about:plugins. It seems that removing pluginreg.dat is the only thing drastic enough to force a re-read of plugins for my system.
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Re: [SOLVED] SM 2.33.1 says Flash 11.2.202.468 is 11.2.202.4

Post by therube »

I use the linux "kill" command to shut down the browser instance.

Hardly appropriate, I would think.
(Appears default might be SIGTERM, which might not be so bad, but nonetheless.)

Seamonkey offers to "restore the session"

Just lucky, I would think.

BTW, Session Restore is a feature of SeaMonkey.
That it happens to work they way you're forcing things, plain luck IMO.
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Re: [SOLVED] SM 2.33.1 says Flash 11.2.202.468 is 11.2.202.4

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How appropriate, gracefully quit Firefox from the command line (even if slightly ancient).
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