Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201911-05

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Affected packages

www-plugins/adobe-flash on all architectures
Affected versions < 32.0.0.255
Unaffected versions >= 32.0.0.255

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

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Adobe Flash Player users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-32.0.0.255"
 

References

Release date
November 25, 2019

Latest revision
November 25, 2019: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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