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openSUSE Evergreen 11.4: 2015:1267-1 Critical: Flash Player Flaws

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2015
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Important security patch for openSUSE addressing weaknesses in flash-player. Safeguard your device to maintain security.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

flash-player was updated to fix two security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2015-5123: Use-after-free vulnerability in the BitmapData class in

the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player allowed

remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service

(memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that overrides a valueOf

function (bsc#937752).

- CVE-2015-5122: Use-after-free vulnerability in the DisplayObject class

in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player allowed

remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service

(memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that leverages improper

handling of the opaqueBackground property (bsc#937752).

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical 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 Evergreen 11.4:

zypper in -t patch 2015-502=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.491-173.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.491-173.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.491-173.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5122.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5123.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=937752

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1267-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical memory corruption openSUSE flash-player

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