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Red Hat: RHSA-2016:2676-01 Critical: Flash Plugin Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2016
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New security enhancement for Flash-plugin issued by Red Hat addressing critical vulnerabilities to mitigate potential code execution threats.
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 11.2.202.644.
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-2016-7857, CVE-2016-7858, CVE-2016-7859, CVE-2016-7860, CVE-2016-7861, CVE-2016-7862, CVE-2016-7863, CVE-2016-7864, CVE-2016-7865)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux code execution risk flash-plugin

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7857 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7858 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7859 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7860 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7861 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7862 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7863 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7864 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7865 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: flash-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: flash-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.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-2016:2676-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2676.html
Issue date: 2016-11-09

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux code execution risk 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

1393087 - CVE-2016-7857 CVE-2016-7858 CVE-2016-7859 CVE-2016-7860 CVE-2016-7861 CVE-2016-7862 CVE-2016-7863 CVE-2016-7864 CVE-2016-7865 flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-37

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