[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 201001-02 ] Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201001-02

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Severity: Normal

Title: Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Date: January 03, 2010

Bugs: #296407

ID: 201001-02

 

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Synopsis

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Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player might allow remote

attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service.

 

Background

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The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is

commonly used to provide interactive websites.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 www-plugins/adobe-flash < 10.0.42.34 >= 10.0.42.34

 

Description

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player:

 

* An anonymous researcher working with the Zero Day Initiative

reported that Adobe Flash Player does not properly process JPEG files

(CVE-2009-3794).

 

* Jim Cheng of EffectiveUI reported an unspecified data injection

vulnerability (CVE-2009-3796).

 

* Bing Liu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs reported multiple

unspecified memory corruption vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-3797,

CVE-2009-3798).

 

* Damian Put reported an integer overflow in the

Verifier::parseExceptionHandlers() function (CVE-2009-3799).

 

* Will Dormann of CERT reported multiple unspecified Denial of

Service vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-3800).

 

Impact

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A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted SWF

file, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with

the privileges of the user running the application, or a Denial of

Service via unknown vectors.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Adobe Flash Player users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose

">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.42.34"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2009-3794

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3794

[ 2 ] CVE-2009-3796

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3796

[ 3 ] CVE-2009-3797

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3797

[ 4 ] CVE-2009-3798

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3798

[ 5 ] CVE-2009-3799

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3799

[ 6 ] CVE-2009-3800

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3800

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201001-02.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

https://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

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