[ GLSA 201001-02 ] Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201001-02)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: January 03, 2010
Bug(s): #296407
ID: 201001-02

Synopsis


Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player might allow remote attackers
to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service.


Background


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


Affected Packages

Package: www-plugins/adobe-flash
Vulnerable: < 10.0.42.34
Unaffected: >= 10.0.42.34
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description


Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player:

• An anonymous researcher working with the Zero Day
  Initiative reported that Adobe Flash Player does not properly process
  JPEG files (CVE-2009-3794).
• Jim Cheng of EffectiveUI reported
  an unspecified data injection vulnerability (CVE-2009-3796).
• Bing Liu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs reported multiple
  unspecified memory corruption vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-3797,
  CVE-2009-3798).
• Damian Put reported an integer overflow in the
  Verifier::parseExceptionHandlers() function (CVE-2009-3799).
• Will Dormann of CERT reported multiple unspecified Denial of
  Service vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-3800).

Impact


A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted SWF
file, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user running the application, or a Denial of
Service via unknown vectors.


Workaround


There is no known workaround at this time.


Resolution


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