Red Hat update for flash-plugin
Secunia Advisory: SA28157
Release Date: 2007-12-19
Popularity: 3,502 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Manipulation of data
Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras v. 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras v. 4
RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client)
RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server)

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-4324
CVE-2007-4768
CVE-2007-5275
CVE-2007-6242
CVE-2007-6244
CVE-2007-6245
CVE-2007-6246


Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for flash-plugin. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and HTTP request splitting attacks, disclose sensitive information, cause a Denial of Service (DoS), or to potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA28161

Solution:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

Original Advisory:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1126.html

Other References:
SA28161:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28161/


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