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Critical Flash-Player Code Execution Risk for openSUSE 13.1 and 13.2

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2015
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The newest openSUSE Flash plugin upgrade tackles 20 severe vulnerabilities, encompassing potential code execution dangers and memory leaks.
An update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

flash-player was updated to version 11.2.202.442 to fix 18 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

- Use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution

(CVE-2015-0313, CVE-2015-0315, CVE-2015-0320, CVE-2015-0322).

- Memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution

(CVE-2015-0314, CVE-2015-0316, CVE-2015-0318, CVE-2015-0321,

CVE-2015-0329, CVE-2015-0330).

- Type confusion vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution

(CVE-2015-0317, CVE-2015-0319).

- Heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution

(CVE-2015-0323, CVE-2015-0327).

- Buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution

(CVE-2015-0324).

- Null pointer dereference issues (CVE-2015-0325, CVE-2015-0326,

CVE-2015-0328).

More information is available at

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update code execution memory corruption openSUSE flash-player

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-2015-118=1

- openSUSE 13.1:NonFree:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-118=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2:NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.442-2.33.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.442-2.33.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.442-2.33.1

- openSUSE 13.1:NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.442-98.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.442-98.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.442-98.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0313.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0314.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0315.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0316.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0317.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0318.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0319.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0320.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0321.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0322.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0323.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0324.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0325.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0326.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0327.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0328.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0329.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0330.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=915918

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0237-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2:NonFree openSUSE 13.1:NonFree .

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update code execution memory corruption openSUSE flash-player

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