RHSA-2018:3644 - 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 31.0.0.153.

Security Fix(es):

• flash-plugin: Arbitrary code execution vulnerability (APSB18-44) (CVE-2018-15981)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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 - 1651640 - CVE-2018-15981 flash-plugin: Arbitrary code execution vulnerability (APSB18-44)

CVEs

• CVE-2018-15981

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-44.html