-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ SUSE Security Announcement Package: flash-player Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2009:041 Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:00:00 +0000 Affected Products: openSUSE 10.3 openSUSE 11.0 openSUSE 11.1 Novell Linux Desktop 9 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2 SLED 11 Vulnerability Type: remote code execution Severity (1-10): 8 SUSE Default Package: yes Cross-References: CVE-2009-0901, CVE-2009-1862, CVE-2009-1863 CVE-2009-1864, CVE-2009-1865, CVE-2009-1866 CVE-2009-1867, CVE-2009-1868, CVE-2009-1869 CVE-2009-1870, CVE-2009-2395, CVE-2009-2493 Content of This Advisory: 1) Security Vulnerability Resolved: remote code execution Problem Description 2) Solution or Work-Around 3) Special Instructions and Notes 4) Package Location and Checksums 5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds: none 6) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information ______________________________________________________________________________ 1) Problem Description and Brief Discussion Note: This advisory was resent because the list of packages was wrong. The flash-player is a web-browser plugin that allows displaying animated web-content and remote access to client hardware (mic, web-cam, etc.). A specially crafted Shockwave-Flash (SWF) file could cause a buffer overflow in the flash-player plugin. This buffer overflow can probably be exploited to execute arbitrary code remotely. 2) Solution or Work-Around No work-around, please update. 3) Special Instructions and Notes Please restart your web-browser after the update. 4) Package Location and Checksums The preferred method for installing security updates is to use the YaST Online Update (YOU) tool. YOU detects which updates are required and automatically performs the necessary steps to verify and install them. Alternatively, download the update packages for your distribution manually and verify their integrity by the methods listed in Section 6 of this announcement. Then install the packages using the command rpm -Fhvto apply the update, replacing with the filename of the downloaded RPM package. x86 Platform: openSUSE 11.1: http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/rpm/i586/flash-player-10.0.32.18-0.1.1.i586.rpm openSUSE 11.0: http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/rpm/i586/flash-player-9.0.246.0-0.1.i586.rpm openSUSE 10.3: http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/rpm/i586/flash-player-9.0.246.0-0.1.i586.rpm Sources: openSUSE 11.1: openSUSE 11.0: openSUSE 10.3: http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/rpm/src/flash-player-9.0.246.0-0.1.src.rpm Our maintenance customers are notified individually. The packages are offered for installation from the maintenance web: Novell Linux Desktop 9 http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&set_restricted=true&keywords=8195fce564597b5b4b13febd70c26995 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2 http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&set_restricted=true&keywords=4392ce749c7a07414dd32e14ff0d23a0 SLED 11 http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?search=Search&set_restricted=true&keywords=0ed97f904ab5337b5e08c83e789c22d2 ______________________________________________________________________________ 5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds: none ______________________________________________________________________________ 6) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information - Announcement authenticity verification: SUSE security announcements are published via mailing lists and on Web sites. The authenticity and integrity of a SUSE security announcement is guaranteed by a cryptographic signature in each announcement. All SUSE security announcements are published with a valid signature. To verify the signature of the announcement, save it as text into a file and run the command gpg --verify replacing with the name of the file where you saved the announcement. The output for a valid signature looks like: gpg: Signature made using RSA key ID 3D25D3D9 gpg: Good signature from "SuSE Security Team " where is replaced by the date the document was signed. If the security team's key is not contained in your key ring, you can import it from the first installation CD. To import the key, use the command gpg --import gpg-pubkey-3d25d3d9-36e12d04.asc - Package authenticity verification: SUSE update packages are available on many mirror FTP servers all over the world. While this service is considered valuable and important to the free and open source software community, the authenticity and the integrity of a package needs to be verified to ensure that it has not been tampered with. The internal rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity of an RPM package. Use the command rpm -v --checksig to verify the signature of the package, replacing with the filename of the RPM package downloaded. The package is unmodified if it contains a valid signature from build@suse.de with the key ID 9C800ACA. This key is automatically imported into the RPM database (on RPMv4-based distributions) and the gpg key ring of 'root' during installation. You can also find it on the first installation CD and at the end of this announcement. - SUSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may subscribe: opensuse-security@opensuse.org - General Linux and SUSE security discussion. All SUSE security announcements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an e-mail to . opensuse-security-announce@opensuse.org - SUSE's announce-only mailing list. Only SUSE's security announcements are sent to this list. 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