metadata/glsa/glsa-201710-22.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201710-22">
  <title>Adobe Flash Player: Remote execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player might allow remote attackers
    to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">adobeflash</product>
  <announced>2017-10-22</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-10-22</revised>
  <bug>634456</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-plugins/adobe-flash" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">27.0.0.170</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">27.0.0.170</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>A  critical type confusion vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash
      Player.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code.</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-27.0.0.170"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-11292">
      CVE-2017-11292
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-16T21:42:03Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-10-22T00:27:40Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>