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SUSE: 2014:0290-1 Critical: Flash Player Stack Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2014
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SUSE has released a security update for flash-player addressing severe issues such as buffer overflow and memory corruption vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update of Adobe Flash Player fixes the following issues: * A stack overflow vulnerability that could have resulted in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-0498) * A memory leak vulnerability that could have been used to defeat memory address layout randomization. (CVE-2014-0499) * A double free vulnerability that could have resulted in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-0502) Security Issue references: * CVE-2014-0498 * CVE-2014-0499 * CVE-2014-0502 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical patch memory leak stack overflow Adobe Flash Player SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#865021

Cross- CVE-2014-0498 CVE-2014-0499 CVE-2014-0502

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0498.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0499.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0502.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:0290-1
Rating: critical

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical patch memory leak stack overflow Adobe Flash Player SUSE Linux Enterprise

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