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Calendar Grey January 3, 2010
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 202110-05 discusses several vulnerabilities within the Adobe Flash Player, which could enable arbitrary code execution and denial of service (DoS) attacks.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player: * An anonymous researcher working with the Zero Day Initiative reported that Adobe Flash Player does not properly process JPEG files (CVE-2009-3794).
* Jim Cheng of EffectiveUI reported an unspecified data injection vulnerability (CVE-2009-3796).
* Bing Liu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs reported multiple unspecified memory corruption vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-3797, CVE-2009-3798).
* Damian Put reported an integer overflow in the Verifier::parseExceptionHandlers() function (CVE-2009-3799).
* Will Dormann of CERT reported multiple unspecified Denial of Service vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-3800).

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo remote code execution multiple issues Denial of Service normal severity Adobe Flash

Resolution

All Adobe Flash Player users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.42.34"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2009-3794 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3794 [ 2 ] CVE-2009-3796 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3796 [ 3 ] CVE-2009-3797 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3797 [ 4 ] CVE-2009-3798 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3798 [ 5 ] CVE-2009-3799 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3799 [ 6 ] CVE-2009-3800 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3800

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201001-02
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 03, 2010
Bugs: #296407
ID: 201001-02

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo remote code execution multiple issues Denial of Service normal severity Adobe Flash

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service.

Background

The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-plugins/adobe-flash < 10.0.42.34 >= 10.0.42.34

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted SWF file, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application, or a Denial of Service via unknown vectors.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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