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Gentoo: GLSA-202109-18 Urgent: Mozilla Firefox Memory Corruption Flaw

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2018
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Adobe Flash Player on Gentoo contains serious vulnerabilities that could enable remote code execution. Update promptly to protect your system.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the 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 remote code execution Adobe Flash Player high threat

Resolution

All Adobe Flash users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-29.0.0.140"

References

[ 1 ] APSB18-08 [ 2 ] CVE-2018-4932 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4932 [ 3 ] CVE-2018-4933 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4933 [ 4 ] CVE-2018-4934 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4934 [ 5 ] CVE-2018-4935 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4935 [ 6 ] CVE-2018-4936 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4936 [ 7 ] CVE-2018-4937 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4937

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-11
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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: High
Title: Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: April 11, 2018
Bugs: #652960
ID: 201804-11

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo remote code execution Adobe Flash Player high threat

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the 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 < 29.0.0.140 >= 29.0.0.140

Impact

===== A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, disclose sensitive information or bypass security restrictions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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