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flash-plugin: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):flash-plugin CVE #(s):CVE-2009-3794 CVE-2009-3796 CVE-2009-3798 CVE-2009-3799 CVE-2009-3800 CVE-2009-3797
Created:December 9, 2009 Updated:January 4, 2010
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

Multiple security flaws were found in the way Flash Player displayed certain SWF content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially-crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the specially-crafted SWF content. (CVE-2009-3794, CVE-2009-3796, CVE-2009-3798, CVE-2009-3799, CVE-2009-3800)

Alerts:
Gentoo 201001-02 2010-01-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:062 2009-12-22
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1657-01 2009-12-09
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1658-01 2009-12-09

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