Removing Adobe Flash on XO-1, XO-1.75 and XO-4 laptops (CVE-2015-7645)

[James Cameron]

G'day,

To keep learners safe, please remove the Adobe Flash plugin on XO-1,
XO-1.75 or XO-4 laptops:

	sudo rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Adobe Security Bulletin APSA15-05 [1] is for a critical remote control
vulnerability (CVE-2015-7645).  An attacker can take control of the
laptop.

For XO-4 and XO-1.75, there will be no fix.  Adobe do not provide a
player for Linux 32-bit ARM platform [2].

For XO-1, there will be no fix.  Adobe do not provide a player
compatible with the AMD Geode processor on the XO-1, which doesn't
have SSE (XMM) registers [3].

For XO-1.5, a fix may be available from Adobe.  Use the steps
on our Wiki [4].

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References:

1.
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-05.html

2.
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

3.
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2012-October/036209.html

4.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash#Installation_on_XO-1.5

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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/