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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2016:1238-01 Critical: Flash Vulnerabilities

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A crucial security patch has been released for the flash-plugin, addressing several vulnerabilities affecting Red Hat environments.
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 11.2.202.626.
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-2016-4122, CVE-2016-4123, CVE-2016-4124, CVE-2016-4125, CVE-2016-4127, CVE-2016-4128, CVE-2016-4129, CVE-2016-4130, CVE-2016-4131, CVE-2016-4132, CVE-2016-4133, CVE-2016-4134, CVE-2016-4135, CVE-2016-4136, CVE-2016-4137, CVE-2016-4138, CVE-2016-4139, CVE-2016-4140, CVE-2016-4141, CVE-2016-4142, CVE-2016-4143, CVE-2016-4144, CVE-2016-4145, CVE-2016-4146, CVE-2016-4147, CVE-2016-4148, CVE-2016-4149, CVE-2016-4150, CVE-2016-4151, CVE-2016-4152, CVE-2016-4153, CVE-2016-4154, CVE-2016-4155, CVE-2016-4156, CVE-2016-4166, CVE-2016-4171)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update remote code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux flash-plugin

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4122 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4123 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4124 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4125 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4127 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4128 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4129 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4130 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4131 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4132 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4133 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4134 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4135 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4136 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4137 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4138 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4139 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4140 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4141 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4142 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4143 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4144 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4145 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4146 Read the Full Advisory

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.626-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.626-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.626-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.626-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.626-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.626-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.626-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.626-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.626-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.626-1.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-2016:1238-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1238
Issue date: 2016-06-17

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 critical software update remote code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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

1346665 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-18

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