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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes Macromedia Flash Player Vulnerability
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Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes Macromedia Flash Player Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2578
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2628
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-11-25
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Gentoo has released updated packages to correct a vulnerability identified in Macromedia Flash Player. This issue is due to memory corruption errors when using frame type identifiers read from malformed SWF files as indexes of certain arrays, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML Web page or open a malicious Flash file. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2317
Affected Products
net-www/netscape-flash versions prior to 7.0.61
Solution
Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.61"
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2578
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/1363
ChangeLog
2005-11-25 : Initial release
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