1130789 - Plugin check mistakes RealPlayer plugin for Adobe Flash

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Plugin Check Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[[:philipp]]

according to a user question at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1045563 the mozilla plugincheck page is mistaking the "RealNetworks(tm) RealDownloader PepperFlashVideoShim Plug-In (32-bit)" plugin for the genuine "Adobe Flash player" and is therefore wrongly qualifying it as vulnerable (the sumo thread also contains a screenshot of the issue).

this is how the plugin is showing up under about:plugins:

RealNetworks(tm) RealDownloader PepperFlashVideoShim Plug-In (32-bit)
File: nprndlpepperflashvideoshim.dll
Path: C:\ProgramData\RealNetworks\RealDownloader\BrowserPlugins\MozillaPlugins\nprndlpepperflashvideoshim.dll
Version: 1.3.3.66
State: Enabled
RealNetworks(tm) RealDownloader PepperFlashVideoShim Plug-In

MIME Type	Description	Suffixes
application/x-rn-downloaderpepperflashvideoshim-plugin	RealNetworks

Comment 1

[guigs [:guigs] PST (please needinfo me!)]

I am making a note here this may have something to do with the defined name detection. Adding a specific file name to Flash may alleviate this?

Comment 2

[[:philipp]]

what string are we looking for in order to detect flash currently?

Comment 3

[guigs [:guigs] PST (please needinfo me!)]

Currently the regex is .*Flash.* obliviously not very specific, but mostly useful when the list was shorter for plugins.  
Clarification may be needed for if this detects the File name or the File path.

Literal alias is also another option here, if we add the exact name of the RealDownloader PepperFlashVideoShim Plug-In it might not come up in Flash detection. But does that mean we start to track version numbers for this new plugin? 

Does literal alias or regex take precedent when detecting plugins?

Comment 4

[robertson007]

Thanks to all for getting on this; it's been driving me mad for months.  Have deleted any reference to "nprndlpepperflashvideoshim.dll" in the registry (it does not exist on the system anywhere) flushed caches, temp files, rebooted until I'm blue.  (:p>

(BTW, the "upload picture" function (was attempting to upload a screenshot) on the support forum has gone inoperative today.)

Comment 5

[robertson007]

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Comment 6

[guigs [:guigs] PST (please needinfo me!)]

Robert, can you tell me if there is any difference in about 15 mins?

Comment 7

[guigs [:guigs] PST (please needinfo me!)]

Let's hold off on this until we can get a dev to confirm the behavior of the regex option.

Comment 8

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

(In reply to rmcguigan from comment #7)
> Let's hold off on this until we can get a dev to confirm the behavior of the
> regex option.

Will have a look and let you know as soon as I can. Apologies for the delayed response.

Comment 9

[robertson007]

(In reply to rmcguigan from comment #6)
> Robert, can you tell me if there is any difference in about 15 mins?

Sorry MC....Was misled by addressing me as "Robert", not "Robertson"...have a cold, not too cognitive at the time.

The bug is still there, and agravating as ever.  Let's hope  Schalk Neethling can get a look at the regex option soon. This has been needling users since _February_.

Comment 10

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/message/reply/question/etc.)]

I'm marking this bug as WONTFIX per bug #1269807.

For more information see - https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/

Comment 11

[amir bk]

let me check for sure..

Comment 12

[[:philipp]]

hi, not sure what you want to check in regards to this bug - firefox now only supports the flash plugin since version 52 of the browser and onwards...