RHSA-2009:1658: Critical: flash-plugin security update

First published: Wed Dec 09 2009(Updated: )

The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash<br>Player web browser plug-in.<br>Multiple security flaws were found in the way Flash Player displayed<br>certain SWF content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a<br>specially-crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or,<br>possibly, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing<br>the specially-crafted SWF content. (CVE-2009-3794, CVE-2009-3796,<br>CVE-2009-3798, CVE-2009-3799, CVE-2009-3800)<br>All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which<br>upgrades Flash Player to version 9.0.260.0.

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