[CentOS] CentOS 6, flash-plugin crashing - anyone have a clue?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Fred Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 10:54:58AM -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> I wrote:
>> Anyone else seeing this? I'm playing streaming media, and after about
10 or 15 min, flash-plugin crashes. I've had this happen today on
streams from two separate radio stations.
>> *************
>>
>> So, is anyone else having this issue? Not only am I having it, but I'm
seeing it on other users, running CentOS 7. On my system, I see in my
logs
>> plugin-containe[17209]: segfault at 3e78991a13c4 ip 00007f06e29fe522 sp
00007ffe9b68de08 error 6 in libflashplayer.so[7f06e238d000+107b000]
>>
>> I'm running Version     : 24.0.0.194 on CentOS 6.8, which appears to be
the same version as is running on CentOS 7, though I see it on
someone's 7.3 with flash-plugin 24.0.0.186. That's from Dec 10, and
that's about when, IIRC, I started seeing crashes.
>
> This may not be the same thing:
>
> I'm running Centos-7, up to date. Flash seems to mostly work fine,... I
can see videos on CNN, for example, as well as other places.
>
> however, I have a weekly online course that uses Adobe Connect,
> which requires flash. At least in the Firefox that ships with (and is
updated occasionally by) Centos, flash crashes whenever I try to open
Connect. If I back out the 24.x.x.x flash version and go back to the
11.x.x.x version it works fine.
>
I just tried, both on 6.8 and 7.3, and yum tells me "nothing to do", so I
can't downgrade. By the way, googling, I find it's been filed as a bug
with upstream:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411972

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