Advisories ยป MGASA-2015-0218

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 12 May 2015
Modification date: 12 May 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2015-3044 , CVE-2015-3077 , CVE-2015-3078 , CVE-2015-3079 , CVE-2015-3080 , CVE-2015-3081 , CVE-2015-3082 , CVE-2015-3083 , CVE-2015-3084 , CVE-2015-3085 , CVE-2015-3086 , CVE-2015-3087 , CVE-2015-3088 , CVE-2015-3089 , CVE-2015-3090 , CVE-2015-3091 , CVE-2015-3092 , CVE-2015-3093

Description

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.460 contains fixes to critical security 
vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could cause a crash and 
potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

This update resolves memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to 
code execution (CVE-2015-3078, CVE-2015-3089, CVE-2015-3090, 
CVE-2015-3093).

This update resolves a heap overflow vulnerability that could lead to code 
execution (CVE-2015-3088). 

This update resolves a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition 
that could be exploited to bypass Protected Mode in Internet Explorer 
(CVE-2015-3081). 

This update resolves validation bypass issues that could be exploited to 
write arbitrary data to the file system under user permissions 
(CVE-2015-3082, CVE-2015-3083, CVE-2015-3085).  

This update resolves an integer overflow vulnerability that could lead to 
code execution (CVE-2015-3087). 

This update resolves a type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code 
execution (CVE-2015-3077, CVE-2015-3084, CVE-2015-3086).

This update resolves a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to code 
execution (CVE-2015-3080).

This update resolves memory leak vulnerabilities that could be used to 
bypass ASLR (CVE-2015-3091, CVE-2015-3092). 

This update resolves a security bypass vulnerability that could lead to 
information disclosure (CVE-2015-3079), and provides additional hardening 
to protect against CVE-2015-3044.

References

SRPMS

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