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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1423 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2016-07-13
Updated:
2016-07-13

RHSA-2016:1423 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Critical: flash-plugin security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

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 11.2.202.632.

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-2016-4172, CVE-2016-4173, CVE-2016-4174, CVE-2016-4175,
CVE-2016-4176, CVE-2016-4177, CVE-2016-4178, CVE-2016-4179, CVE-2016-4180,
CVE-2016-4181, CVE-2016-4182, CVE-2016-4183, CVE-2016-4184, CVE-2016-4185,
CVE-2016-4186, CVE-2016-4187, CVE-2016-4188, CVE-2016-4189, CVE-2016-4190,
CVE-2016-4217, CVE-2016-4218, CVE-2016-4219, CVE-2016-4220, CVE-2016-4221,
CVE-2016-4222, CVE-2016-4223, CVE-2016-4224, CVE-2016-4225, CVE-2016-4226,
CVE-2016-4227, CVE-2016-4228, CVE-2016-4229, CVE-2016-4230, CVE-2016-4231,
CVE-2016-4232, CVE-2016-4233, CVE-2016-4234, CVE-2016-4235, CVE-2016-4236,
CVE-2016-4237, CVE-2016-4238, CVE-2016-4239, CVE-2016-4240, CVE-2016-4241,
CVE-2016-4242, CVE-2016-4243, CVE-2016-4244, CVE-2016-4245, CVE-2016-4246,
CVE-2016-4247, CVE-2016-4248, CVE-2016-4249)

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

Fixes

  • BZ - 1355971 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-25

CVEs

  • CVE-2016-4183
  • CVE-2016-4182
  • CVE-2016-4181
  • CVE-2016-4180
  • CVE-2016-4187
  • CVE-2016-4186
  • CVE-2016-4185
  • CVE-2016-4184
  • CVE-2016-4231
  • CVE-2016-4230
  • CVE-2016-4189
  • CVE-2016-4188
  • CVE-2016-4235
  • CVE-2016-4234
  • CVE-2016-4219
  • CVE-2016-4218
  • CVE-2016-4238
  • CVE-2016-4217
  • CVE-2016-4246
  • CVE-2016-4243
  • CVE-2016-4247
  • CVE-2016-4244
  • CVE-2016-4240
  • CVE-2016-4236
  • CVE-2016-4237
  • CVE-2016-4190
  • CVE-2016-4233
  • CVE-2016-4228
  • CVE-2016-4229
  • CVE-2016-4248
  • CVE-2016-4249
  • CVE-2016-4222
  • CVE-2016-4223
  • CVE-2016-4220
  • CVE-2016-4221
  • CVE-2016-4226
  • CVE-2016-4227
  • CVE-2016-4224
  • CVE-2016-4225
  • CVE-2016-4172
  • CVE-2016-4173
  • CVE-2016-4176
  • CVE-2016-4177
  • CVE-2016-4174
  • CVE-2016-4175
  • CVE-2016-4178
  • CVE-2016-4179
  • CVE-2016-4242
  • CVE-2016-4241
  • CVE-2016-4232
  • CVE-2016-4245
  • CVE-2016-4239
  • CVE-2016-7020

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-25.html
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: c53a83980620c91bcd1eaf1c93a062b82abc5cb8bccf4b72c3aff2a3126b3251
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: c53a83980620c91bcd1eaf1c93a062b82abc5cb8bccf4b72c3aff2a3126b3251

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: dcb8e80de761ce3b1aa1f578900d000d52e8b0d7331eed0a9fb0b6939adefedf
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: dcb8e80de761ce3b1aa1f578900d000d52e8b0d7331eed0a9fb0b6939adefedf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: c53a83980620c91bcd1eaf1c93a062b82abc5cb8bccf4b72c3aff2a3126b3251
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: c53a83980620c91bcd1eaf1c93a062b82abc5cb8bccf4b72c3aff2a3126b3251

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: dcb8e80de761ce3b1aa1f578900d000d52e8b0d7331eed0a9fb0b6939adefedf
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: dcb8e80de761ce3b1aa1f578900d000d52e8b0d7331eed0a9fb0b6939adefedf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: c53a83980620c91bcd1eaf1c93a062b82abc5cb8bccf4b72c3aff2a3126b3251
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: c53a83980620c91bcd1eaf1c93a062b82abc5cb8bccf4b72c3aff2a3126b3251

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: dcb8e80de761ce3b1aa1f578900d000d52e8b0d7331eed0a9fb0b6939adefedf
i386
flash-plugin-11.2.202.632-1.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: dcb8e80de761ce3b1aa1f578900d000d52e8b0d7331eed0a9fb0b6939adefedf

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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