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[SECURITY] [DSA 2435-1] gnash security update

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2435-1 security ( -at -) debian.org

http://www.debian.org/security/ Gabriele Giacone

March 19, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : gnash

Vulnerability : several

Problem type : local / local (remote)

Debian-specific: no

CVE ID : CVE-2010-4337 CVE-2011-4328 CVE-2012-1175

Debian Bug : 605419 649384 664023

 

Several vulnerabilities have been identified in Gnash, the GNU Flash

player.

 

CVE-2012-1175

 

Tielei Wang from Georgia Tech Information Security Center discovered a

vulnerability in GNU Gnash which is caused due to an integer overflow

error and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by

tricking a user into opening a specially crafted SWF file.

 

CVE-2011-4328

 

Alexander Kurtz discovered an unsafe management of HTTP cookies. Cookie

files are stored under /tmp and have predictable names, vulnerability

that allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files the users has

write permissions for, and are also world-readable which may cause

information leak.

 

CVE-2010-4337

 

Jakub Wilk discovered an unsafe management of temporary files during the

build process. Files are stored under /tmp and have predictable names,

vulnerability that allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files

the users has write permissions for.

 

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in

version 0.8.8-5+squeeze1.

 

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in

version 0.8.10-5.

 

We recommend that you upgrade your gnash packages.

 

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply

these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be

found at: http://www.debian.org/security/

 

 

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