gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201803-08.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201803-08">
  <title>Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the
    worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">flash</product>
  <announced>2018-03-19</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-03-19</revised>
  <bug>646724</bug>
  <bug>650424</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-plugins/adobe-flash" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">29.0.0.113</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">29.0.0.113</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is
      commonly used to provide interactive websites.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player.
      Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process or bypass security restrictions.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Adobe Flash Player users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=www-plugins/adobe-flash-29.0.0.113"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4871">CVE-2018-4871</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4877">CVE-2018-4877</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4878">CVE-2018-4878</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4919">CVE-2018-4919</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4920">CVE-2018-4920</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-03-13T18:13:28Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-03-19T01:08:30Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>