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Red Hat: RHSA-2016-1865-01 Critical: Flash-Plugin Security Issue

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2016
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Essential flash-plugin upgrade for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rectifies numerous security flaws in Adobe Flash Player.
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 11.2.202.635.
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-2016-4271, CVE-2016-4272, CVE-2016-4274, CVE-2016-4275, CVE-2016-4276, CVE-2016-4277, CVE-2016-4278, CVE-2016-4279, CVE-2016-4280, CVE-2016-4281, CVE-2016-4282, CVE-2016-4283, CVE-2016-4284, CVE-2016-4285, CVE-2016-4287, CVE-2016-6921, CVE-2016-6922, CVE-2016-6923, CVE-2016-6924, CVE-2016-6925, CVE-2016-6926, CVE-2016-6927, CVE-2016-6929, CVE-2016-6930, CVE-2016-6931, CVE-2016-6932)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update critical exploit Red Hat Enterprise Linux flash-plugin

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4271 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4272 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4274 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4275 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4276 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4277 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4278 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4279 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4280 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4281 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4282 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4283 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4284 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4285 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4287 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6921 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6922 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6923 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6924 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6925 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6926 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6927 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6929 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6930 Read the Full Advisory

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-1.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-2016:1865-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1865.html
Issue date: 2016-09-14

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 security issue update critical exploit 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

1375725 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-29

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