CentOS - Jun 2012 - Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

I'm running Centos 5.7 32 bit with Firefox 10.0.5 ESR

Not sure if this has been mentioned on the list yet, but the 
latest version of Adobe flash-plugin 11.2.202 has a bug 
which causes it to hang and not play SWF files.

I've been pulling my hair out trying to identify why I could 
not get any SWF videos to play.

I finally found the answer here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1080414

I have downgraded the flash-plugin now to version 10.3.183
from rpmforge repo. It works fine now :)

I've also added exclude=flash-plugin to the end 
of /etc/yum.conf file, to make sure this does not get 
upgraded again.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote:
> I'm running Centos 5.7 32 bit with Firefox 10.0.5 ESR
>
> Not sure if this has been mentioned on the list yet, but the
> latest version of Adobe flash-plugin 11.2.202 has a bug
> which causes it to hang and not play SWF files.
>
> I've been pulling my hair out trying to identify why I could
> not get any SWF videos to play.
>
> I finally found the answer here:
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1080414
>
> I have downgraded the flash-plugin now to version 10.3.183
> from rpmforge repo. It works fine now :)
>
> I've also added exclude=flash-plugin to the end
> of /etc/yum.conf file, to make sure this does not get
> upgraded again.
>
That's a bad idea. Unpatched critical vulnerabilities in Flash (along 
with Java) is one of the most likely routes of infection of your machine 
and not updating it is asking for trouble.