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openSUSE: 2014:0197-1 Critical: Flash Player Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2014
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important openSUSE patch for media player addresses integer overflow vulnerability, enhancing overall system protection is now released.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

Flash Player received an out of band critical security

update to fix an integer underflow vulnerability that could

be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the affected

system (CVE-2014-0497).

More information can be found on:

-04.html

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.1:NonFree:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-109

- openSUSE 12.3:NonFree:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-109

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1:NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.336-30.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.336-30.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.336-30.1

- openSUSE 12.3:NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.336-2.56.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.336-2.56.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.336-2.56.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0497.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:0197-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1:NonFree openSUSE 12.3:NonFree .

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