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openSUSE 11.4: 2012:0265-1 Critical: Flash Player Security Update

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2012
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important openSUSE Security Patch for flash-player addresses various vulnerabilities and brings version 11.1.102.62.
An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

flash-player was updated to the security update to

11.1.102.62.

It fixes lots of security issues, some already exploited in

the wild.

Details can be found on:

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These vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially

allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

This update also resolves a universal cross-site scripting

vulnerability that could be used to take actions on a

user's behalf on any website or webmail provider, if the

user visits a malicious website. There are reports that

this vulnerability (CVE-2012-0767) is being exploited in

the wild in active targeted attacks designed to trick the

user into clicking on a malicious link delivered in an

email message (Internet Explorer on Windows only).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 11.4:

zypper in -t patch flash-player-5812

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 11.1.102.62]:

flash-player-11.1.102.62-0.7.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0751.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0752.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0753.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0754.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0755.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0756.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0767.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0265-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 . It includes one version update.

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