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openSUSE: 2015:0150-1 Critical: Flash-Player Update Available

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2015
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openSUSE released a critical security update for Flash Player to fix vulnerabilities that could allow unauthorized system control. Users should patch immediately
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

Adobe Flash Player was updated to 11.2.202.440 (bsc#914463, APSA15-01,

CVE-2015-0311).

More information can be found on

An update of flashplayer (executable binary) for i386 is currently not

available. Disabled!

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical openSUSE flash-player patch instructions

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:NonFree:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-78

- openSUSE 13.1:NonFree:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-78

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2:NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.440-2.29.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.440-2.29.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.440-2.29.1

- openSUSE 13.1:NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.440-94.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.440-94.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.440-94.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0311.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914463

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0150-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2:NonFree openSUSE 13.1:NonFree .

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical openSUSE flash-player patch instructions

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