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Gentoo: GLSA-201406-17 Normal: Adobe Flash Player Remote Risk

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Gentoo advisory GLSA 202307-18 outlines critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player along with essential upgrade directives.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo code execution remote execution multiple issues normal severity adobe flash player

Resolution

All Adobe Flash Player users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.378 "

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-0531 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0531 [ 2 ] CVE-2014-0532 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0532 [ 3 ] CVE-2014-0533 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0533 [ 4 ] CVE-2014-0534 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0534 [ 5 ] CVE-2014-0535 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0535 [ 6 ] CVE-2014-0536 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0536

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201406-17
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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: June 17, 2014
Bugs: #512888
ID: 201406-17

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo code execution remote execution multiple issues normal severity adobe flash player

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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 < 11.2.202.378 >= 11.2.202.378

Impact

===== A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, conduct Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks, or bypass security restrictions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.