RHSA-2017:0275 - Security 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 24.0.0.221.

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-2017-2982, CVE-2017-2984, CVE-2017-2985, CVE-2017-2986, CVE-2017-2987, CVE-2017-2988, CVE-2017-2990, CVE-2017-2991, CVE-2017-2992, CVE-2017-2993, CVE-2017-2994, CVE-2017-2995, CVE-2017-2996)

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 - 1422237 - CVE-2017-2982 CVE-2017-2984 CVE-2017-2985 CVE-2017-2986 CVE-2017-2987 CVE-2017-2988 CVE-2017-2990 CVE-2017-2991 CVE-2017-2992 CVE-2017-2993 CVE-2017-2994 CVE-2017-2995 CVE-2017-2996 flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB17-04

CVEs

• CVE-2017-2982
• CVE-2017-2984
• CVE-2017-2985
• CVE-2017-2986
• CVE-2017-2987
• CVE-2017-2988
• CVE-2017-2990
• CVE-2017-2991
• CVE-2017-2992
• CVE-2017-2993
• CVE-2017-2995
• CVE-2017-2996

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-04.html