Bug 684988 (CVE-2011-0609)

Summary:	CVE-2011-0609 flash-plugin: crash and potential arbitrary code execution (APSB11-05)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	collura, ed.costello, emhuang, mmelanso, mtilburg, stransky
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Bug Depends On:	685055, 685056
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Description Vincent Danen 2011-03-14 23:05:50 UTC

Adobe has released APSA11-01 [1] to warn of a new critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 10.x.  The expected release is the week of March 21st.  The vulnerability is described as:

This vulnerability (CVE-2011-0609) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in a Microsoft Excel (.xls) file delivered as an email attachment. Adobe is not currently aware of attacks targeting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe Reader X Protected Mode mitigations would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing.

This flaw does not affect Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.x for UNIX.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-01.html

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-03-15 18:02:35 UTC

Here is some additional information:

http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2011/03/background-on-apsa11-01-patch-schedule.html

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2011-03-22 03:59:35 UTC

APSB11-05 has been released to correct this flaw (flash player 10.2.153.1):

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-05.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-03-22 19:54:43 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0372 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0372.html