Advisories ยป MGASA-2015-0379

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 21 Sep 2015
Modification date: 21 Sep 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2015-5567 , CVE-2015-5568 , CVE-2015-5570 , CVE-2015-5571 , CVE-2015-5572 , CVE-2015-5573 , CVE-2015-5574 , CVE-2015-5575 , CVE-2015-5576 , CVE-2015-5577 , CVE-2015-5578 , CVE-2015-5579 , CVE-2015-5580 , CVE-2015-5581 , CVE-2015-5582 , CVE-2015-5584 , CVE-2015-5587 , CVE-2015-5588 , CVE-2015-6676 , CVE-2015-6677 , CVE-2015-6678 , CVE-2015-6679 , CVE-2015-6682

Description

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.521 contains fixes to critical security 
vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could potentially allow an 
attacker to take control of the affected system.

This update resolves a type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code 
execution (CVE-2015-5573). 

This update resolves use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code 
execution (CVE-2015-5570, CVE-2015-5574, CVE-2015-5581, CVE-2015-5584, 
CVE-2015-6682). 

This update resolves buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to 
code execution (CVE-2015-6676, CVE-2015-6678). 

This update resolves memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to 
code execution (CVE-2015-5575, CVE-2015-5577, CVE-2015-5578, CVE-2015-5580, 
CVE-2015-5582, CVE-2015-5588, CVE-2015-6677). 

This update includes additional validation checks to ensure that Flash 
Player rejects malicious content from vulnerable JSONP callback APIs 
(CVE-2015-5571). 

This update resolves a memory leak vulnerability (CVE-2015-5576). 

This update includes further hardening to a mitigation to defend against 
vector length corruptions (CVE-2015-5568). 

This update resolves stack corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to 
code execution (CVE-2015-5567, CVE-2015-5579). 

This update resolves a stack overflow vulnerability that could lead to code 
execution (CVE-2015-5587). 

This update resolves a security bypass vulnerability that could lead to 
information disclosure (CVE-2015-5572). 

This update resolves a vulnerability that could be exploited to bypass the 
same-origin-policy and lead to information disclosure (CVE-2015-6679).

References

SRPMS

5/nonfree