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RHEL 5/6: RHSA-2011:1445-01 Critical: Flash Plugin Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 11, 2011
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The latest Adobe Flash Player update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 5 and 6 resolves urgent vulnerabilities and affects user security.
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 https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

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 APSB11-28, 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-2011-2445, CVE-2011-2450, CVE-2011-2451, CVE-2011-2452, CVE-2011-2453, CVE-2011-2454, CVE-2011-2455, CVE-2011-2456, CVE-2011-2457, CVE-2011-2459, CVE-2011-2460)
All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 10.3.183.11.

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

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2445 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2450 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2451 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2452 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2453 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2454 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2455 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2456 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2457 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2459 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2460 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-10.3.183.11-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.3.183.11-1.el5.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-10.3.183.11-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.3.183.11-1.el5.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-10.3.183.11-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.3.183.11-1.el6.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-10.3.183.11-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.3.183.11-1.el6.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-10.3.183.11-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-10.3.183.11-1.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-2011:1445-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1445.html
Issue date: 2011-11-11

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 security issue Red Hat update critical code execution flash plugin

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) - i386, x86_64

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) - 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

752983 - flash-plugin: mulitple code execution flaws (APSB11-28)

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