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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201209-01">
  <title>Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the
    worst of which could result in execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">adobe-flash</product>
  <announced>September 05, 2012</announced>
  <revised>September 05, 2012: 2</revised>
  <bug>431432</bug>
  <bug>432286</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-plugins/adobe-flash" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">11.2.202.238</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">11.2.202.238</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is
      commonly used to provide interactive websites.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash
      Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open specially crafted SWF
      content, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process, or a Denial of Service condition. Furthermore,
      a remote attacker may be able to obtain sensitive information.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Adobe Flash Player users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.238"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1535">CVE-2012-1535</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4163">CVE-2012-4163</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4164">CVE-2012-4164</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4165">CVE-2012-4165</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4166">CVE-2012-4166</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4167">CVE-2012-4167</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4168">CVE-2012-4168</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:47:55 +0000">ago</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:17:33 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>