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flash-plugin: lots of problems

Package(s):

flash-plugin

CVE #(s):

CVE-2007-5275 CVE-2007-4324 CVE-2007-4768 CVE-2007-6242 CVE-2007-6243 CVE-2007-6244 CVE-2007-6245 CVE-2007-6246

Created:

December 19, 2007

Updated:

April 18, 2008

Description:

A vast number of vulnerabilities exists in the proprietary Flash plugin for Firefox.

Alerts:

Red Hat	RHSA-2007:1126-01	2007-12-18
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2007:069	2007-12-21
Gentoo	200801-07:02	2008-01-20
Red Hat	RHSA-2008:0221-01	2008-04-08
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2008:022	2008-04-11
Gentoo	200804-21	2008-04-18

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flash-plugin: lots of problems

Posted Jan 8, 2008 1:38 UTC (Tue) by zorgan (guest, #4016) [Link]

This update for opensuse broke flash support in konqueror, and possibly 
other browser, since it apparently wasn't a pure security update.
See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348088.

flash-plugin: lots of problems

Posted Mar 13, 2008 9:02 UTC (Thu) by knan (subscriber, #3940) [Link]

The linked fedora alert is for pcre, not flash...

flash-plugin: lots of problems

Posted Mar 13, 2008 14:26 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> The linked fedora alert is for pcre, not flash...

So it is.  Not sure how that happened, but fixed now.

jake