Advisories » MGASA-2016-0370

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 09 Nov 2016
Modification date: 09 Nov 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-7860 , CVE-2016-7861 , CVE-2016-7865 , CVE-2016-7857 , CVE-2016-7858 , CVE-2016-7859 , CVE-2016-7862 , CVE-2016-7863 , CVE-2016-7864

Description

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.644 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 type confusion vulnerabilities that could lead to code 
execution (CVE-2016-7860, CVE-2016-7861, CVE-2016-7865).

This update resolves use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code 
execution (CVE-2016-7857, CVE-2016-7858, CVE-2016-7859, CVE-2016-7862, 
CVE-2016-7863, CVE-2016-7864).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19741
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-37.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7860
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7861
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7865
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7857
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7858
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7859
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7862
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7863
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7864

SRPMS

5/nonfree

• flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.mga5.nonfree