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openSUSE 13.1: 2016:0997-1 Important: Flash Player Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey April 8, 2016
Scroller Opensuse
Urgent security patch for openSUSE flash-player tackling a denial of service vulnerability. Prompt response advised.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

flash-player was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2016-1019: Adobe Flash Player earlier allowed remote attackers to

cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute

arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in

April 2016 Aliased: (bsc#974209).

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important fix 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 13.1 NonFree:

zypper in -t patch 2016-440=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.616-159.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.616-159.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.616-159.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1019.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/974209

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0997-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 NonFree .

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important fix openSUSE flash player

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