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Red Hat 5: RHSA-2015:2024-01 Critical: Flash Player Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey November 11, 2015
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Important notification regarding Adobe Flash Player for Red Hat 5, focused on significant vulnerabilities and bolstering system safeguards.
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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletins APSB15-25, APSB15-27, and APSB15-28 listed in the References section, could allow an attacker to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content. (CVE-2015-5569, CVE-2015-7625, CVE-2015-7626, CVE-2015-7627, CVE-2015-7628, CVE-2015-7629, CVE-2015-7630, CVE-2015-7631, CVE-2015-7632, CVE-2015-7633, CVE-2015-7634, CVE-2015-7635, CVE-2015-7636, CVE-2015-7637, CVE-2015-7638, CVE-2015-7639, CVE-2015-7640, CVE-2015-7641, CVE-2015-7642, CVE-2015-7643, CVE-2015-7644, CVE-2015-7645, CVE-2015-7647, CVE-2015-7648, CVE-2015-7651, CVE-2015-7652, CVE-2015-7653, CVE-2015-7654, CVE-2015-7655, CVE-2015-7656, CVE-2015-7657, CVE-2015-7658, CVE-2015-7659, CVE-2015-7660, CVE-2015-7661, CVE-2015-7662, CVE-2015-7663, CVE-2015-8042, CVE-2015-8043, CVE-2015-8044, CVE-2015-8046)
All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.548.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat critical Flash Player Adobe update web browser plug-in

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5569 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7625 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7626 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7627 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7628 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7629 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7630 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7631 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7632 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7633 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7634 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7635 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7636 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7637 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7638 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7639 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7640 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7641 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7642 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7643 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7644 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7645 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7647 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7648 Read the Full Advisory

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.548-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.548-1.el5.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.548-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.548-1.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:2024-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2024.html
Issue date: 2015-11-11

Topic

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issuesis now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical securityimpact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which givedetailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from theCVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat critical Flash Player Adobe update web browser plug-in

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1271383 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-25

1271388 - flash-plugin: information leak and hardening fixes in APSB15-25

1271966 - CVE-2015-7645 CVE-2015-7647 CVE-2015-7648 flash-plugin: multiple code execution issue fixed in APSB15-27

1280062 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-28

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