Gentoo alert 200303-9 (netscape-flash)

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Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
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gentoo-announce@gentoo.org
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GLSA:  netscape-flash (200303-9)
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Sun, 9 Mar 2003 02:56:30 +0100

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-9
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          PACKAGE : netscape-flash
          SUMMARY : buffer overflow
             DATE : 2003-03-09 01:56 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <6.0.79
    FIXED VERSION : =>6.0.79
              CVE : 

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- From advisory:
"The cumulative security patch is available today and addresses the 
potential for exploits surrounding buffer overflows (read/write) and 
sandbox integrity within the player, which might allow malicious users 
to gain access to a user's computer. The possibility of running native 
code on a users machine is a theoretical exploit, and extremely 
difficult to execute in practice. There are no known examples of 
running such native code from Macromedia Flash movies; however, even 
though this issue is difficult and theoretical in nature only, we 
are encouraging users to upgrade."

Read the full advisory at:
http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=23821

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-www/netscape-flash upgrade to netscape-flash-6.0.79 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge netscape-flash
emerge clean

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