Issued:
2016-12-14
Updated:
2016-12-14

RHSA-2016:2947 - Security Advisory

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 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 24.0.0.186.

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-2016-7867, CVE-2016-7868, CVE-2016-7869, CVE-2016-7870, CVE-2016-7871, CVE-2016-7872, CVE-2016-7873, CVE-2016-7874, CVE-2016-7875, CVE-2016-7876, CVE-2016-7877, CVE-2016-7878, CVE-2016-7879, CVE-2016-7880, CVE-2016-7881, CVE-2016-7890, CVE-2016-7892)

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 Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 1404307 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-39

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-24.0.0.186-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2f0c4e7ec7805b9edcf4fb403f83b4fee4a08e4b60dfc85dd103b01224ea289f
i386
flash-plugin-24.0.0.186-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2f0c4e7ec7805b9edcf4fb403f83b4fee4a08e4b60dfc85dd103b01224ea289f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-24.0.0.186-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2f0c4e7ec7805b9edcf4fb403f83b4fee4a08e4b60dfc85dd103b01224ea289f
i386
flash-plugin-24.0.0.186-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2f0c4e7ec7805b9edcf4fb403f83b4fee4a08e4b60dfc85dd103b01224ea289f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
x86_64
flash-plugin-24.0.0.186-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2f0c4e7ec7805b9edcf4fb403f83b4fee4a08e4b60dfc85dd103b01224ea289f
i386
flash-plugin-24.0.0.186-1.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2f0c4e7ec7805b9edcf4fb403f83b4fee4a08e4b60dfc85dd103b01224ea289f

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