Synopsis

Critical: flash-plugin security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

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