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AKA Toby Ovod-Everett
AKA Toby Ovod-Everett
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Shockwave 11.6.4.634 MSI is missing compatibility components

Feb 15, 2012 11:31 AM

It appears that the Shockwave 11.6.4.634 MSI that was released yesterday does not have the 10.* compatibility components.  It does appear that updated compatibility components were released (10.4.1.36 - this matches the progression in release numbers observed over the past two and half years since 11.5.1.601/10.4.1.26 was released).  This is the first MSI release since 11.* was released that doesn't have the 10.* compatibility components included.  It does not appear that there is any sanctioned method for automated deployment of the 10.4.1.26 compatibility components to machines.

 

Non-Administrative users can't install the compatibility components themselves (at least under XP), so they have no way of accessing sites that serve up 10.* content (see

see Page 2 of http://www.adobe.com/support/director/ts/documents/kb403195/Director11 _Whitepaper.pdf for details on when the compatibility components get invoked) unless they know to go into their settings and disable backward compatibility (or unless we tweak the deployment to configure that ahead of time).  Furthermore, if they contact a help desk to have them install the compatibility components, it is uncertain if there will be any automated patching for those components going forward when the another set of security releases for Shockwave gets released.  In addition, if tweaks were made to the Shockwave configuration on the machine, installation of the compatibility components has a tendency to wipe out those changes.
I can confirm (at least under XP) that installation of the 11.6.4.634 MSI to a machine with the 11.6.3.633/10.4.1.35 MSI installed does result in the removal of the 10.4.1.35 compatibility components (which is good - at least the vulnerability is eliminated).
Perhaps Adobe would be willing to reconsider this decision.
--Toby Ovod-Everett
2278 Views   3 Replies   Latest reply: AKA Toby Ovod-Everett, Mar 1, 2012 11:18 AM
 
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  • ColchesterRGS
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    1. ColchesterRGS,
    Feb 23, 2012 9:06 AM   in reply to AKA Toby Ovod-Everett
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    We've seen the same problem, and would also like this decision to be reversed.

     
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    2. ColchesterRGS,
    Feb 28, 2012 6:42 AM   in reply to AKA Toby Ovod-Everett
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    Have just downloaded the MSI again, and it now seems to include the 10.4.1.36 compatibility components.

     

    Thanks Adobe!

     
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    3. AKA Toby Ovod-Everett,
    Mar 1, 2012 11:18 AM   in reply to ColchesterRGS
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    ColchesterRGS: Thanks for letting me (and anyone else following this thread) know!   I apologize for the delay in acknowledging - I've been getting this new version deployed to the machines I manage and fighting other fires.

    Adobe: Thanks (not!) for the comprehensive communications strategy to ensure we would know about this course change and then reversal.

     

    Seriously, Adobe does do a better job than Apple (I have a boycott going against Apple due to their complete and total refusal to provide any sort of meaningful support for deployment and management of QuickTime/iTunes - neither will be installed on any machine for which I have any degree of responsibility), but as workstation adminstrators we shouldn't have to have the skills of an intelligence analyst to figure out what is going on inside the hive and shouldn't have to be poking around inside MSIs to figure out what's being shipped!  It's damn lonely out here - the forward channel from Adobe to us is pretty sparse, and the back channel seems non-existent.

     
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