RHSA-2018:0081 - 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 Important. 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 28.0.0.137.

Security Fix(es):

• This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletins listed in the References section, could allow an attacker to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to disclose sensitive information or modify its settings when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content. (CVE-2017-11305, CVE-2018-4871)

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 - 1525508 - CVE-2017-11305 flash-plugin: unintended reset of global settings preference file vulnerability (APSB17-42)
• BZ - 1532810 - CVE-2018-4871 flash-plugin: out-of-bounds read causing information leak (APSB18-01)

CVEs

• CVE-2017-11305
• CVE-2018-4871

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-42.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-01.html