Advisories » MGASA-2016-0360

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 01 Nov 2016
Modification date: 01 Nov 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-7855

Description

This update fixes a use-after-free issue that can be triggered by
attackers for arbitrary code execution, potentially allow the attacker to
take control of the affected system (CVE-2016-7855).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19664
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-36.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7855

SRPMS

5/nonfree

• flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.643-1.mga5.nonfree