Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of June 2015

Tags: june 2015 third party patches, non-microsoft updates, patch vulnerable third party software, third party patches

• WL
  5:06 pm on July 16th, 2015 1

  No rest for the weary.

  1) Java JRE Version 8 Update 51 (8u51) was released on July 14.

  http://java.com/en/download/installed8.jsp?detect=jre
  http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u51-relnotes-2587590.html

  2) Adobe Shockwave Player has an update to 12.1.9.159 on around June 29.

  https://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
  https://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

  3) Adobe Flash Player has another update, to 18.0.0.209 (for most browsers) on around July 12, on top of the recent update to 18.0.0.203 (for most browsers) on around July 4.

  http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

  https://helpx.adobe.com/au/security.html
  (posted June 23)
  https://helpx.adobe.com/au/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-14.html
  (posted June 9)
  https://helpx.adobe.com/au/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-11.html

  4) Mozilla Firefox had a major update to 39.0 on July 2.

  https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/39.0/releasenotes/
  https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/

  5) Google Chrome had an update to 43.0.2357.134 on July 14, which updates its internal (Pepper PPAPI) Flash Player to 18.0.0.209, among other changes.

  http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_14.html

  6) Opera had an update to 30.0.1835.125 on July 14.

  http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2015/07/opera-30-0-1835-125-stable-update/
  http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/changelog-30/#b1835.125
  http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/

  7) Also, go to weakdh.org to check if your browser is vulnerable to the Logjam Attack.

  It says my Firefox 39.0 and Opera 30.0.1835.125 are safe, but my Chrome 43.0.2357.134 is not:
  “Warning! Your web browser is vulnerable to Logjam and can be tricked into using weak encryption. You should update your browser.”

  This is already the latest Chrome version, so I will have to investigate further. If anyone knows how to harden it, please post instructions.

• WL
  7:17 pm on July 21st, 2015 2

  1) Just a week after its last (minor) update, Google released a major (v44) Chrome update to 44.0.2403.89 on July 22. It has many changes: fixes and new features (“A number of new apps/extension APIs”).

  http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
  http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/search/label/Stable%20updates

  2) Reminder: the next major update, v45 in September, will discontinue support for NPAPI plugins.
  https://randythetechprofessor.com/third-party-program-updates-for-the-month-of-march-2015#comment-24062

• Randy Knowles
  11:28 am on July 22nd, 2015 3

  Thanks WL,

  You are “the man”. All of these third party updates are a pain in the behind. Thanks for helping us keep up with them.

  Randy Knowles

 

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