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Red Hat: RHSA-2016:1079-01 Critical Flash Plugin Threats

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2016
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Important patch for flash-plugin on Red Hat platforms rectifies several security flaws and boosts overall protection.
An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, 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 upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.621.
Security Fix(es):
* This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin 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-2016-1096, CVE-2016-1097, CVE-2016-1098, CVE-2016-1099, CVE-2016-1100, CVE-2016-1101, CVE-2016-1102, CVE-2016-1103, CVE-2016-1104, CVE-2016-1105, CVE-2016-1106, CVE-2016-1107, CVE-2016-1108, CVE-2016-1109, CVE-2016-1110, CVE-2016-4108, CVE-2016-4109, CVE-2016-4110, CVE-2016-4111, CVE-2016-4112, CVE-2016-4113, CVE-2016-4114, CVE-2016-4115, CVE-2016-4116, CVE-2016-4117)

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution critical update Red Hat Enterprise security impact malicious content flash-plugin

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1096 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1097 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1098 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1099 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1100 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1101 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1102 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1103 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1104 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1105 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1106 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1107 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1108 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1109 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1110 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4108 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4109 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4110 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4111 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4112 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4113 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4114 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4115 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4116 Read the Full Advisory

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-1.el5.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-1.el5.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-1.el6_8.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-2016:1079-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1079.html
Issue date: 2016-05-13

Topic

An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Supplementary and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution critical update Red Hat Enterprise security impact malicious content 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

1335058 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-15

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