RHSA-2015:2697 - Security Advisory

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, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin APSB16-01
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-2015-8459, CVE-2015-8460, CVE-2015-8634, CVE-2015-8635,
CVE-2015-8636, CVE-2015-8638, CVE-2015-8639, CVE-2015-8640,
CVE-2015-8641, CVE-2015-8642, CVE-2015-8643, CVE-2015-8644,
CVE-2015-8645, CVE-2015-8646, CVE-2015-8647, CVE-2015-8648,
CVE-2015-8649, CVE-2015-8650, CVE-2015-8651)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package,
which upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.559.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.7 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 Workstation 5 i386
• 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 Desktop 5 i386
• 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 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.7 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1294580 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01

CVEs

• CVE-2015-8650
• CVE-2015-8460
• CVE-2015-8648
• CVE-2015-8651
• CVE-2015-8644
• CVE-2015-8649
• CVE-2015-8641
• CVE-2015-8646
• CVE-2015-8638
• CVE-2015-8459
• CVE-2015-8640
• CVE-2015-8634
• CVE-2015-8635
• CVE-2015-8636
• CVE-2015-8642
• CVE-2015-8645
• CVE-2015-8643
• CVE-2015-8647
• CVE-2015-8639
• CVE-2016-0959

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-01.html