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openSUSE 13.1: 2016:1802-1 Critical: Flash Player Remote Exploits

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Vital security update published for Adobe Flash Player on openSUSE to rectify various weaknesses.
An update that fixes 52 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

Adobe Flash Player was updated to 11.2.202.632 to fix many security issues

tracked under the upstream advisory APSB16-25, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when delivering specially crafted Flash content.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

- CVE-2016-4172: memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code

execution

- CVE-2016-4173: use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to code

execution

- CVE-2016-4174: use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to code

execution

- CVE-2016-4175: memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code

execution

- CVE-2016-4176: stack corruption vulnerability that could lead to code

execution

- CVE-2016-4177: stack corruption vulnerability that could lead to code

execution

- CVE-2016-4178: security bypass vulnerability that could lead to

information disclosure

- CVE-2016-4179: memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code

...

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote code execution memory corruption patch 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 2016-870=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 NonFree (i586 x86_64):

flash-player-11.2.202.632-168.1

flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.632-168.1

flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.632-168.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4172.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4173.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4174.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4175.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4176.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4177.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4178.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4179.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4180.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4181.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4182.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4183.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4184.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4185.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4186.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4187.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4188.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4189.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4190.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1802-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 NonFree .

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote code execution memory corruption patch openSUSE flash player

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