Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified, the worst of which allow arbitrary code execution on a user's system via a malicious Flash file.
Package | www-plugins/adobe-flash on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 9.0.124.0 |
Unaffected versions | >= 9.0.124.0 |
The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the popular SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash:
A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file (usually in a web browser), possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the Adobe Flash Player. The attacker could also cause a user's machine to send HTTP requests to other hosts, establish TCP sessions with arbitrary hosts, bypass the security sandbox model, or conduct Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Adobe Flash Player users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.124.0"
Release date
April 18, 2008
Latest revision
May 28, 2009: 02
Severity
normal
Exploitable
remote
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