Bug 1525508 (CVE-2017-11305) - CVE-2017-11305 flash-plugin: unintended reset of global settings preference file vulnerability (APSB17-42)
Summary: CVE-2017-11305 flash-plugin: unintended reset of global settings preference f...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-11305
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1532813 1532814
Blocks: 1525509
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Reported: 2017-12-13 13:04 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-03-11 16:38 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: flash-plugin 28.0.0.126
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Last Closed: 2018-01-10 21:05:04 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0081 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: flash-plugin security update 2018-01-11 01:56:19 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-13 13:04:03 UTC 
Adobe Security Bulletin APSB17-42 for Adobe Flash Player describes a business logic error flaw that can possibly lead to unintended reset of global settings preference file when Flash Player is used to play a specially crafted SWF file.

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https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-42.html
Comment 1 Blake Powers 2018-01-08 14:31:50 UTC 
Hello, everyone.

I have a customer for which this is issue is associated and they wanted 
to note that this is DoD "IAVA-A-0357".
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-10 20:56:41 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2018:0081 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0081
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