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Red Hat: RHSA-2011:0206-01 Critical: Flash Plugin Code Issues

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2011
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An important announcement for Adobe Flash Player resolves significant security vulnerabilities for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 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 page APSB11-02, 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-2011-0558, CVE-2011-0559, CVE-2011-0560, CVE-2011-0561, CVE-2011-0571, CVE-2011-0572, CVE-2011-0573, CVE-2011-0574, CVE-2011-0575, CVE-2011-0577, CVE-2011-0578, CVE-2011-0607, CVE-2011-0608)
All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 10.2.152.27.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0558 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0559 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0560 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0561 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0571 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0572 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0573 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0574 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0575 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0577 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0578 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0607 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0608 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

RHEL Supplementary (v. 5.6.Z server):
i386: flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-1.el5.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-1.el6.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-1.el6.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-1.el6.i686.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-2011:0206-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0206.html
Issue date: 2011-02-09

Topic

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issuesis now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 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 Red Hat critical code execution updates flash plugin

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Supplementary (v. 5.6.Z server) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

676226 - CVE-2011-0558 CVE-2011-0559 CVE-2011-0560 CVE-2011-0561 CVE-2011-0571 CVE-2011-0572 CVE-2011-0573 CVE-2011-0574 CVE-2011-0575 CVE-2011-0577 CVE-2011-0578 CVE-2011-0607 CVE-2011-0608 flash-plugin: multiple code execution flaws (APSB11-02)

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