CentOS - Feb 2011 - Flash No Longer Supported on RHEL 4

>From RHSA Announce:
[RHSA-2011:0259-01] Critical: flash-plugin - 1-Month End Of Life Notice

> The flash-plugin package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 contains multiple
> security flaws and should no longer be used. This is the 1-month
> notification of Red Hat's plans to disable Adobe Flash Player 9 on Red
Hat
> Enterprise Linux 4.
> 
> The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical
> security impact.

Adobe's security caveats apply to Linux as well as Windows.



regards,

benm



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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Ben Mohilef <benm at dsl-only.net>
wrote:
> From RHSA Announce:
> [RHSA-2011:0259-01] Critical: flash-plugin - 1-Month End Of Life Notice
>
>> The flash-plugin package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 contains
multiple
>> security flaws and should no longer be used. This is the 1-month
>> notification of Red Hat's plans to disable Adobe Flash Player 9 on
Red Hat
>> Enterprise Linux 4.
>>
>> The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
>> critical
>> security impact.
Nice to see Red Hat partially following Apple's war against flash ;-)
I personally hate this flash crap (not only because of security
reasons).

cheers Sven