RHSA-2016:1079 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Supplementary and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a
detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.

Description

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

This update upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.621.

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-2016-1096, CVE-2016-1097, CVE-2016-1098, CVE-2016-1099,
CVE-2016-1100, CVE-2016-1101, CVE-2016-1102, CVE-2016-1103, CVE-2016-1104,
CVE-2016-1105, CVE-2016-1106, CVE-2016-1107, CVE-2016-1108, CVE-2016-1109,
CVE-2016-1110, CVE-2016-4108, CVE-2016-4109, CVE-2016-4110, CVE-2016-4111,
CVE-2016-4112, CVE-2016-4113, CVE-2016-4114, CVE-2016-4115, CVE-2016-4116,
CVE-2016-4117)

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

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 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

Fixes

• BZ - 1335058 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-15

CVEs

• CVE-2016-4109
• CVE-2016-1110
• CVE-2016-1098
• CVE-2016-1099
• CVE-2016-1096
• CVE-2016-1097
• CVE-2016-1108
• CVE-2016-1109
• CVE-2016-1104
• CVE-2016-1105
• CVE-2016-1106
• CVE-2016-1107
• CVE-2016-1100
• CVE-2016-1101
• CVE-2016-1102
• CVE-2016-1103
• CVE-2016-4114
• CVE-2016-4115
• CVE-2016-4116
• CVE-2016-4117
• CVE-2016-4110
• CVE-2016-4111
• CVE-2016-4112
• CVE-2016-4113
• CVE-2016-4108
• CVE-2016-4120
• CVE-2016-4121
• CVE-2016-4160
• CVE-2016-4161
• CVE-2016-4162
• CVE-2016-4163

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-15.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa16-02.html