Issued:
2015-01-14
Updated:
2015-01-14

RHSA-2015:0052 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Critical: flash-plugin security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues
is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.

Description

The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash
Player web browser plug-in.

This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These
vulnerabilities are detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin APSB15-01,
listed in the References section.

Multiple flaws were found in the way flash-plugin displayed certain SWF
content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted
SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute
arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF
content. (CVE-2015-0303, CVE-2015-0306, CVE-2015-0304, CVE-2015-0309,
CVE-2015-0305, CVE-2015-0308)

This update also fixes multiple information disclosure flaws in
flash-plugin. (CVE-2015-0301, CVE-2015-0302, CVE-2015-0307)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which
upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.429.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 1181903 - CVE-2015-0303 CVE-2015-0306 CVE-2015-0304 CVE-2015-0309 CVE-2015-0305 CVE-2015-0308 flash-plugin: Multiple code-execution flaws (APSB15-01)
  • BZ - 1181909 - CVE-2015-0301 CVE-2015-0302 CVE-2015-0307 flash-plugin: Information disclosure via various methods (APSB15-01)

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b71c3db266a7e9cc2e9f2f7eb62ab8cf4469c62d5a1f6ec9e072ddd06dea3f55
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b71c3db266a7e9cc2e9f2f7eb62ab8cf4469c62d5a1f6ec9e072ddd06dea3f55

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b71c3db266a7e9cc2e9f2f7eb62ab8cf4469c62d5a1f6ec9e072ddd06dea3f55
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b71c3db266a7e9cc2e9f2f7eb62ab8cf4469c62d5a1f6ec9e072ddd06dea3f55

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b71c3db266a7e9cc2e9f2f7eb62ab8cf4469c62d5a1f6ec9e072ddd06dea3f55
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b71c3db266a7e9cc2e9f2f7eb62ab8cf4469c62d5a1f6ec9e072ddd06dea3f55

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b71c3db266a7e9cc2e9f2f7eb62ab8cf4469c62d5a1f6ec9e072ddd06dea3f55
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b71c3db266a7e9cc2e9f2f7eb62ab8cf4469c62d5a1f6ec9e072ddd06dea3f55

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b0831b522374e7d6827225ea98f74eaa2a351eb17e6a954f922e541d05a8682d

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