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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2010:0464-01 Critical: Flash Plugin DoS

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Urgent security patch for flash-plugin addresses various vulnerabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Prompt measures needed.
An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in.
This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities are detailed on the Adobe security pages APSA10-01 and APSB10-14, listed in the References section.
Multiple security flaws were found in the way flash-plugin displayed certain SWF content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially-crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the specially-crafted SWF content. (CVE-2009-3793, CVE-2010-1297, CVE-2010-2160, CVE-2010-2161, CVE-2010-2162, CVE-2010-2163, CVE-2010-2164, CVE-2010-2165, CVE-2010-2166, CVE-2010-2167, CVE-2010-2169, CVE-2010-2170, CVE-2010-2171, CVE-2010-2173, CVE-2010-2174, CVE-2010-2175, CVE-2010-2176, CVE-2010-2177, CVE-2010-2178, CVE-2010-2180, CVE-2010-2181, CVE-2010-2182, CVE-2010-2183, CVE-2010-2184, CVE-2010-2185, CVE-2010-2186, CVE-2010-2187, CVE-2010-2188)
An input sanitization flaw was found in the way flash-plugin processed certain URLs. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks if a victim were tricked into visiting a specially-crafted web page. (CVE-2010-2179)
A denial of service flaw was found in the way flash-plugin processed certain SWF content. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially-crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash. (CVE-2008-4546)
All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 10.1.53.64.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical XSS DoS Red Hat Enterprise web browser flash-plugin

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4546 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-3793 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1297 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2160 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2161 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2162 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2163 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2164 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2165 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2166 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2167 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2169 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2170 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2171 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2173 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2174 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2175 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2176 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2177 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2178 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2179 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2180 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2181 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2182 Read the Full Advisory

Package List

RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client):
i386: flash-plugin-10.1-2.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.1-2.el5.i386.rpm
RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server):
i386: flash-plugin-10.1-2.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.1-2.el5.i386.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0464-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0464.html
Issue date: 2010-06-11

Topic

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issuesis now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical XSS DoS Red Hat Enterprise web browser flash-plugin

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

467082 - CVE-2008-4546 flash-plugin: crash caused by SWF files with different SWF versions obtained from the same URL

600692 - CVE-2010-1297 acroread, flash-plugin: Arbitrary code execution by opening a specially-crafted PDF file with malicious SWF content (APSA10-01)

602847 - flash-plugin: multiple security flaws (APSB10-14)

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