Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201705-12

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Affected packages

Background

The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or bypass security restrictions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-25.0.0.171 :22"
 

References

• CVE-2017-3068
• CVE-2017-3069
• CVE-2017-3070
• CVE-2017-3071
• CVE-2017-3072
• CVE-2017-3073
• CVE-2017-3074

Release date
May 26, 2017

Latest revision
May 26, 2017: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 617968