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openSUSE 13.1 & 12.3: 2014:1562-1 Important Flash-Player Code Execution

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Calendar Grey December 5, 2014
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant announcement regarding Fedora's video player fixes a security loophole effectively.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

flash-player was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed:

- Hardening against a code execution flaw (CVE-2014-8439).

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-2014-737

- openSUSE 12.3:NonFree:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-737

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1:NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.424-78.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.424-78.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.424-78.1

- openSUSE 12.3:NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.424-2.104.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.424-2.104.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.424-2.104.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8439.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907257

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:1562-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1:NonFree openSUSE 12.3:NonFree .

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