Bug 530692 (CVE-2014-8439)

Summary:	<www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.424 - additional hardening against (CVE-2014-8439)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-26.html
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	532074
Bug Blocks:

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-11-25 21:51:08 UTC

"Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.  These updates provide additional hardening against CVE-2014-8439, which was mitigated in the October 14, 2014 release (reference http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-22.html)."

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-11-25 21:52:58 UTC

Arch teams, please test and mark stable:
=www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.424
Targeted stable KEYWORDS : amd64 x86

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-11-28 10:59:48 UTC

Stable for AMD64 x86.

Comment 3 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-12-09 17:39:49 UTC

GLSA Vote: No

Comment 4 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-12-09 17:41:21 UTC

That should be B3, hardening for mitigated issue.

Comment 5 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-12-09 20:41:33 UTC

Adding this in GLSA together with bug 532074

Comment 6 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2014-12-11 06:55:49 UTC

CVE-2014-8439 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8439):
  Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.258 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.239 on
  Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.424 on Linux, Adobe AIR before
  15.0.0.293, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.302, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler
  before 15.0.0.302 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a
  denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

Comment 7 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2014-12-11 07:00:18 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201412-07 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-07.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sergey Popov (pinkbyte).