Bug 71341

Summary:	Lots of security holes in flash plugin
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	netscape	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	rvokal
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Description Mark J. Cox 2002-08-12 14:58:45 UTC

Description of Problem:

A security hole in the widely used Macromedia Shockwave Flash file
format used with Web browsers can allow an attacker to execute code of
their choice on affected systems, according to a new security alert
released Friday by eEye Digital Security.

http://idg.net/ic_933538_1794_9-10000.html


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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-08-12 20:46:40 UTC

I'd rather get a fixed-for-zlib netscape to go out with this...

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2002-08-13 07:29:29 UTC

Netscape have said that the zlib they use is old and not vulnerable to the
double free issue (the zlib in the plugins is vulnerable however)

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2003-06-20 18:32:56 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-026.html