MGASA-2015-0218

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MGASA-2015-0218

Summary: Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Details: Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.460 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This update resolves memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3078, CVE-2015-3089, CVE-2015-3090, CVE-2015-3093). This update resolves a heap overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3088). This update resolves a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that could be exploited to bypass Protected Mode in Internet Explorer (CVE-2015-3081). This update resolves validation bypass issues that could be exploited to write arbitrary data to the file system under user permissions (CVE-2015-3082, CVE-2015-3083, CVE-2015-3085). This update resolves an integer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3087). This update resolves a type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3077, CVE-2015-3084, CVE-2015-3086). This update resolves a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3080). This update resolves memory leak vulnerabilities that could be used to bypass ASLR (CVE-2015-3091, CVE-2015-3092). This update resolves a security bypass vulnerability that could lead to information disclosure (CVE-2015-3079), and provides additional hardening to protect against CVE-2015-3044.

References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0218.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15916, https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-09.html