Gentoo: netscape-flash Buffer overflow vulnerability
The cumulative security patch is available today and addresses thepotential for exploits surrounding buffer overflows (read/write) andsandbox integrity within the player, which mig...
Summary
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>From advisory: "The cumulative security patch is available today and addresses the potential for exploits surrounding buffer overflows (read/write) and sandbox integrity within the player, which might allow malicious usersto gain access to a user's computer. The possibility of running native code on a users machine is a theoretical exploit, and extremely difficult to execute in practice. There are no known examples of running such native code from Macromedia Flash movies; however, even though this issue is difficult and theoretical in nature only, we are encouraging users to upgrade."
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SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-www/netscape-flash upgrade to netscape-flash-6.0.79 as follows:
emerge sync emerge netscape-flash emerge clean
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6.0.79
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PACKAGE : netscape-flash
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-03-09 01:56 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <6.0.79 :="" fixed version>6.0.79
CVE :
