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Gentoo: GLSA-201407-02 Critical: Adobe Flash Player Remote Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey July 9, 2014
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Upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to address security issues such as remote code execution and denial of service threats.
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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security advisory Gentoo critical remote code execution Denial of Service 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-11.2.202.394"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-0537 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0537 [ 2 ] CVE-2014-0539 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0539 [ 3 ] CVE-2014-4671 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-4671

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201407-02
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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.

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Severity: Normal
Title: Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: July 09, 2014
Bugs: #516750
ID: 201407-02

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo critical remote code execution Denial of Service 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 < 11.2.202.394 >= 11.2.202.394

Impact

===== A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.