MGASA-2018-0286

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    MGASA-2018-0286

    Published: 16 Jun 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated flash-player-plugin packages fixes security issues

    Details: Updated flash-player-plugin packages fixes the following security issues A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or obtain sensitive information (CVE-2018-4945, CVE-2018-5000, CVE-2018-5001, CVE-2018-5002). In response to a class of recently disclosed vulnerabilities in popular CPU hardware related to data cache timing (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754), known popularly as Spectre and Meltdown, Adobe are disabling the ‘shareable’ property of the ActionScript ByteArray class by default. For more info see the referenced adobe release notes.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0286.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23175, https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-19.html, https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/fp_30_air_30_release_notes.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: flash-player-plugin

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/flash-player-plugin?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -30.0.0.113-1.mga6.nonfree

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High