Advisories » MGASA-2017-0143

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 May 2017
Modification date: 21 May 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-3071 , CVE-2017-3068 , CVE-2017-3069 , CVE-2017-3070 , CVE-2017-3072 , CVE-2017-3073 , CVE-2017-3074

Description

Adobe Flash Player 25.0.0.171 contains fixes to critical security
vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could potentially allow an
attacker to take control of the affected system.

This updates resolves a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to
code execution (CVE-2017-3071).

This updates resolves memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to
code execution (CVE-2017-3068, CVE-2017-3069, CVE-2017-3070,
CVE-2017-3072, CVE-2017-3073, CVE-2017-3074).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20818
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-15.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-3071
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-3068
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-3069
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-3070
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-3072
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-3073
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-3074

SRPMS

5/nonfree

• flash-player-plugin-25.0.0.171-1.mga5.nonfree