Bug 1168057 (CVE-2014-8439) - CVE-2014-8439 flash-plugin: hardening against a code execution flaw (APSB14-26)
Summary: CVE-2014-8439 flash-plugin: hardening against a code execution flaw (APSB14-26)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-8439
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1168058 1168059 1168060
Blocks: 1168063
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-11-26 01:10 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:58 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: flash-plugin 11.2.202.424
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Last Closed: 2014-11-26 18:45:44 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1915 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: flash-plugin security update 2014-11-26 21:08:55 UTC

Description Murray McAllister 2014-11-26 01:10:56 UTC 
Adobe has released Flash Player 11.2.202.424 for Linux to correct the following flaw:

These updates provide additional hardening against a vulnerability in the handling of a dereferenced memory pointer that could lead to code execution (CVE-2014-8439).  A mitigation was previously introduced for this issue in the October 14, 2014 release.

External References:

http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-26.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-11-26 16:09:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2014:1915 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1915.html
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