Issued:

2009-07-31

Updated:

2009-07-31

RHSA-2009:1188 - Critical: flash-plugin security update

Synopsis

Critical: flash-plugin security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Description

The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in.

Multiple security flaws were found in the way Flash Player displayed certain SWF content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially-crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the specially-crafted SWF content. (CVE-2009-1862, CVE-2009-1863, CVE-2009-1864, CVE-2009-1865, CVE-2009-1866, CVE-2009-1868, CVE-2009-1869)

A clickjacking flaw was discovered in Flash Player. A specially-crafted SWF file could trick a user into unintentionally or mistakenly clicking a link or a dialog. (CVE-2009-1867)

A flaw was found in the Flash Player local sandbox. A specially-crafted SWF file could cause information disclosure when it was saved to the hard drive. (CVE-2009-1870)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 10.0.32.18.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-2.el5.i386.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 513362
• This content is not included.BZ - 514874
• This content is not included.BZ - 514877

CVEs

• CVE-2009-1869
• CVE-2009-1868
• CVE-2009-1870
• CVE-2009-1863
• CVE-2009-1862
• CVE-2009-1867
• CVE-2009-1866
• CVE-2009-1865
• CVE-2009-1864

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• Content from www.adobe.com is not included.Content from www.adobe.com is not included.http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-10.html

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.