Advisories » MGAA-2015-0008

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix a memory leak

Publication date: 24 Jan 2015
Modification date: 24 Jan 2015
Type: bugfix
Affected Mageia releases : 4

Description

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.438 contains a fix to a memory leak.

The memory leak could be used circumvent memory address randomization on 
the Windows platform (CVE-2015-0310) and is being exploited in the wild on 
that platform, but Adobe has not reported that this memory leak would be 
exploitable on Linux.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15116
• http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-02.html

SRPMS

4/nonfree

• flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.438-1.mga4.nonfree