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Red Hat 5 RHSA-2009:1188-01 Critical: Flash-Plugin Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important security patch for Adobe Flash Player in Red Hat responding to various vulnerabilities with risk of remote code execution.
An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. This update has been rated as having criti...

Solution

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

This update is available via 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.
Multiple security flaws were found in the way Flash Player 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, possibly, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the specially-crafted SWF content. (CVE-2009-1862, CVE-2009-1863, CVE-2009-1864, CVE-2009-1865, CVE-2009-1866, CVE-2009-1868, CVE-2009-1869)
A clickjacking flaw was discovered in Flash Player. A specially-crafted SWF file could trick a user into unintentionally or mistakenly clicking a link or a dialog. (CVE-2009-1867)
A flaw was found in the Flash Player local sandbox. A specially-crafted SWF file could cause information disclosure when it was saved to the hard drive. (CVE-2009-1870)
All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 10.0.32.18.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat critical code execution flash-plugin

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1862 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1863 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1864 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1865 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1866 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1867 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1868 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1869 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1870 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client):
i386: flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-2.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-2.el5.i386.rpm
RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server):
i386: flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-2.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-2.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-2009:1188-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1188.html
Issue date: 2009-07-31

Topic

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issuesis now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary.This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat critical code execution flash-plugin

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

Bugs Fixed

513362 - CVE-2009-1862 acroread, flash-plugin: Remote code execution vulnerability via malicious SWF (Shockwave Flash) content

514874 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution flaws (APSB09-10)

514877 - flash-plugin: multiple information disclosure flaws (APSB09-10)

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