Fwd: [SECURITY] Critical Fixes in flash-plugin-7.0.68-1

[Lonni J Friedman]

If you're using the Flash plugin, this impacts you (regardless of your distro).

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From: Warren Togami <warren at togami.com>
Date: Sep 12, 2006 10:07 PM
Subject: [SECURITY] Critical Fixes in flash-plugin-7.0.68-1
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>


flash-plugin-7.0.68-1 fixes multiple input validation errors that had
the potential for execution of arbitrary code.  These are CVE-2006-3311,
CVE-2006-3587, and CVE-2006-3588.

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-11.html
Adobe's Security Bulletin with some details.

http://macromedia.mplug.org/
The Flash Player for Linux site above has RPMS tested for easy
install/upgrade on Fedora.  This site not affiliated with the Fedora
Project.  Be warned that other mirrors may not be updated yet with
version 7.0.68.

http://macromedia.mplug.org/faq.html#fedora
Important notice about how to workaround crippling bugs in Flash Player
7 for Linux that affect Fedora Core 5 and higher.

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/
Adobe's Blog about their progress toward Flash Player 9 for Linux.

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com

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