- Issued:
- 2017-01-11
- Updated:
- 2017-01-11
RHSA-2017:0057 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Critical: flash-plugin security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Critical
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
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 24.0.0.194.
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-2017-2925, CVE-2017-2926, CVE-2017-2927, CVE-2017-2928, CVE-2017-2930, CVE-2017-2931, CVE-2017-2932, CVE-2017-2933, CVE-2017-2934, CVE-2017-2935, CVE-2017-2936, CVE-2017-2937, CVE-2017-2938)
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
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 - 1411929 - CVE-2017-2925 CVE-2017-2926 CVE-2017-2927 CVE-2017-2928 CVE-2017-2930 CVE-2017-2931 CVE-2017-2932 CVE-2017-2933 CVE-2017-2934 CVE-2017-2935 CVE-2017-2936 CVE-2017-2937 CVE-2017-2938 flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB17-02
CVEs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6
SRPM | |
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x86_64 | |
flash-plugin-24.0.0.194-1.el6_8.i686.rpm | SHA-256: c791905f5cac7148af679887190c481616d2241f559f726f00238772fec1bc16 |
i386 | |
flash-plugin-24.0.0.194-1.el6_8.i686.rpm | SHA-256: c791905f5cac7148af679887190c481616d2241f559f726f00238772fec1bc16 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
x86_64 | |
flash-plugin-24.0.0.194-1.el6_8.i686.rpm | SHA-256: c791905f5cac7148af679887190c481616d2241f559f726f00238772fec1bc16 |
i386 | |
flash-plugin-24.0.0.194-1.el6_8.i686.rpm | SHA-256: c791905f5cac7148af679887190c481616d2241f559f726f00238772fec1bc16 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
x86_64 | |
flash-plugin-24.0.0.194-1.el6_8.i686.rpm | SHA-256: c791905f5cac7148af679887190c481616d2241f559f726f00238772fec1bc16 |
i386 | |
flash-plugin-24.0.0.194-1.el6_8.i686.rpm | SHA-256: c791905f5cac7148af679887190c481616d2241f559f726f00238772fec1bc16 |
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