MGASA-2015-0248

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MGASA-2015-0248

Summary: Updated flash-player-plugin package fixes security vulnerability

Details: Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.468 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. Adobe is aware of reports that CVE-2015-3113 is being actively exploited in the wild via limited, targeted attacks. Systems running Internet Explorer for Windows 7 and below, as well as Firefox on Windows XP, are known targets. This update resolves a heap buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3113). This update resolves a vulnerability (CVE-2015-3096) that could be exploited to bypass the fix for CVE-2014-5333. This update resolves vulnerabilities that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin-policy and lead to information disclosure (CVE-2015-3098, CVE-2015-3099, CVE-2015-3102). This update resolves a stack overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3100). This update resolves a permission issue in the Flash broker for Internet Explorer that could be exploited to perform privilege escalation from low to medium integrity level (CVE-2015-3101). This update resolves an integer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3104). This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3105). This update resolves use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3103, CVE-2015-3106, CVE-2015-3107). This update resolves a memory leak vulnerability that could be used to bypass ASLR (CVE-2015-3108).

References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0248.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16139, https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-11.html, https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-14.html