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openSUSE 13.1: 2016:1309-1 Important Flash Player Exploit Fix

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2016
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An urgent security patch has been released for flash-player on openSUSE 13.1 NonFree. Ensure you update immediately.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This security update for flash-player to 11.2.202.621 fixes the following

issues (boo#979422):

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2016-4117) exists in Adobe Flash Player

21.0.0.226 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Chrome

OS. Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an

attacker to take control of the affected system. (APSA16-02)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical exploit 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 2016-587=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.621-162.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.621-162.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.621-162.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4117.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979422

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1309-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 NonFree .

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Topics Covered

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