An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,

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====================================================================                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Critical: flash-plugin security update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2012:1346-01
Product:           Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL:      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1346.html
Issue date:        2012-10-09
CVE Names:         CVE-2012-5248 CVE-2012-5249 CVE-2012-5250 
                   CVE-2012-5251 CVE-2012-5252 CVE-2012-5253 
                   CVE-2012-5254 CVE-2012-5255 CVE-2012-5256 
                   CVE-2012-5257 CVE-2012-5258 CVE-2012-5259 
                   CVE-2012-5260 CVE-2012-5261 CVE-2012-5262 
                   CVE-2012-5263 CVE-2012-5264 CVE-2012-5265 
                   CVE-2012-5266 CVE-2012-5267 CVE-2012-5268 
                   CVE-2012-5269 CVE-2012-5270 CVE-2012-5271 
                   CVE-2012-5272 
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1. Summary:

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes several security issues is
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

2. 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

3. Description:

The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash
Player web browser plug-in.

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These
vulnerabilities are detailed on the Adobe security page APSB12-22, listed
in the References section. Specially-crafted SWF content could cause
flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when a victim
loads a page containing the malicious SWF content. (CVE-2012-5248,
CVE-2012-5249, CVE-2012-5250, CVE-2012-5251, CVE-2012-5252, CVE-2012-5253,
CVE-2012-5254, CVE-2012-5255, CVE-2012-5256, CVE-2012-5257, CVE-2012-5258,
CVE-2012-5259, CVE-2012-5260, CVE-2012-5261, CVE-2012-5262, CVE-2012-5263,
CVE-2012-5264, CVE-2012-5265, CVE-2012-5266, CVE-2012-5267, CVE-2012-5268,
CVE-2012-5269, CVE-2012-5270, CVE-2012-5271, CVE-2012-5272)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which
upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.243.

4. 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/knowledge/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

864284 - flash-plugin: multiple code-execution flaws (APSB12-22)

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5):

i386:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.el5.i386.rpm

x86_64:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.el5.i386.rpm

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

i386:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.el5.i386.rpm

x86_64:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.el5.i386.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):

i386:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.el6.i686.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):

i386:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.el6.i686.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):

i386:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-1.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

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5248
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5249
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5250
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5251
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5252
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5253
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5254
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5255
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5256
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5257
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5258
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5259
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5260
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5261
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5262
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5263
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5264
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5265
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5266
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5267
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5268
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5269
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5270
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5271
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5272
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is .  More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
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