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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2016:0166-01 Critical Flash Update

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Calendar Grey February 10, 2016
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An important announcement regarding Adobe Flash Player highlights critical security vulnerabilities. Users must promptly install the latest plugin version to ensure safety
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.

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 Bulletin APSB16-04 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-2016-0964, CVE-2016-0965, CVE-2016-0966, CVE-2016-0967, CVE-2016-0968, CVE-2016-0969, CVE-2016-0970, CVE-2016-0971, CVE-2016-0972, CVE-2016-0973, CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0976, CVE-2016-0977, CVE-2016-0978, CVE-2016-0979, CVE-2016-0980, CVE-2016-0981, CVE-2016-0982, CVE-2016-0983, CVE-2016-0984, CVE-2016-0985)
All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.569.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software update code execution red hat enterprise flash plugin

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0964 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0965 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0966 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0967 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0968 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0969 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0970 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0971 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0972 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0973 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0974 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0975 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0976 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0977 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0978 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0979 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0980 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0981 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0982 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0983 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0984 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0985 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-1.el5.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-1.el5.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.569-1.el6_7.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:0166-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0166.html
Issue date: 2016-02-10

Topic

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issuesis now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 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 issue critical software update code execution red hat enterprise 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

1306015 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-04

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