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Gentoo GLSA-200603-20 Normal: Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 202303-15 emphasizes critical patches required to address vulnerabilities that could allow code execution via harmful SWF documents.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified that allows arbitrary code execution on a user's system via the handling of malicious SWF files

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-20 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Macromedia Flash Player: Arbitrary code execution Date: March 21, 2006 Bugs: #102777 ID: 200603-20

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified that allows arbitrary code execution on a user's system via the handling of malicious SWF files.
Background ========= The Macromedia Flash Player is a renderer for the popular SWF filetype which is commonly used to provide interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-www/netscape-flash < 7.0.63 >= 7.0.63
========== The Macromedia Flash P...

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