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openSUSE Evergreen 11.4: 2015:0238-1 Critical: Flash-Player Code Issues

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2015
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Essential openSUSE upgrade for flash-player addresses 18 vulnerabilities and enhances overall system security. Implement the update effortlessly.
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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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4:

zypper in -t patch 2015-7=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.442-147.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.442-147.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.442-147.1

References

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

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0238-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 .

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