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flash-plugin: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):flash-plugin CVE #(s):CVE-2009-0519 CVE-2009-0520 CVE-2009-0521
Created:February 26, 2009 Updated:March 4, 2009
Description: flash-plugin has multiple vulnerabilities. From the Red Hat alert:

Multiple input validation flaws were found in the way Flash Player displayed certain SWF (Shockwave Flash) content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially-crafted SWF file that could cause flash-plugin to crash, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the specially-crafted SWF content. (CVE-2009-0520, CVE-2009-0519)

It was discovered that Adobe Flash Player had an insecure RPATH (runtime library search path) set in the ELF (Executable and Linking Format) header. A local user with write access to the directory pointed to by RPATH could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Adobe Flash Player. (CVE-2009-0521)

Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:011 2009-02-26
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0334-01 2009-02-25
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0332-01 2009-02-25

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