969269 - Upgrade all machines for the latest Flash player

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla QA Graveyard :: Infrastructure, defect, P1)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Adobe has released a new version of Flashplayer to stop  the 0-day exploit. Given that the plugin is blocklisted across all of our machines, so that endurance tests not actually run for Flash content.

We have to upgrade all nodes for the latest Flash player. Andreea, can you please do that given that you are the duty this week? In this case please update staging first, and if all goes well we can also do production.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Versions to be update to:

12.0.0.44 (Windows & Mac)
11.2.202.336 (Linux)

Comment 2

[Andreea Matei [:AndreeaMatei]]

Sure, I'll start on staging.

Comment 3

[Cosmin Malutan, [:cosmin-malutan]]

Hi, I updated the staging nodes and on production:
win-7-32
win-7-64
win-81-32
win-81-64
win-8-32
win-8-64

Comment 4

[Andreea Matei [:AndreeaMatei]]

Linux machines are all updated, started on OS X.

Comment 5

[Andreea Matei [:AndreeaMatei]]

10.7 machines are updated. Remaining OS X 10.8, Vista and XP.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

(In reply to Andreea Matei [:AndreeaMatei] from comment #4)
> Linux machines are all updated, started on OS X.

This is not true at least for the staging machines where the Flash download window is open. As noted explicitly before this is a manual operation as of now. It's also documented and mentioned in the docs at Mana. So why has it been forgotten? This is a very important issue because it can cause massive focus problems for our tests on those platforms.

Comment 7

[Andreea Matei [:AndreeaMatei]]

I have updated them all successfully and also checked on http://adobe.com/software/flash/about that it is the correct version. I know I closed that window where it was present (and waited for it).
Today I'll continue the updates and will connect again to all of the linux machines to check for the dialog.

Comment 8

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

On those machines which were not connected, and which I checked yesterday, this dialog was always present. So the others should most likely be affected as well.

Please be aware that in some cases I have seen that the terminal opened by this dialog quickly opens and goes away. We might try to do the same step via the terminal itself: 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-installer'.

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

As we have seen on IRC right now, Andrei installed the ActiveX component of the Flash player the last time he did the updates. So all Windows machines have to be checked now if this component is around, and get it uninstalled. Instead strictly follow the link in the docs which point to the NPAPI version of the plugin.

Comment 10

[Andreea Matei [:AndreeaMatei]]

Checked all ubuntu machines for that dialog, updated the right version of Flash on the windows machines. Finished the update on all OS X.
Cleaned the workspace which I missed to do for windows on the affected staging mm-win-81-32 machine and will do the same for all of them.

Comment 11

[Andreea Matei [:AndreeaMatei]]

This is fixed now, we'll make sure to follow Mana documentation step by step next time.