RHSA-2009:0332Critical

Red Hat Security Advisory: flash-plugin security update

Published
February 25, 2009
Last Modified
June 28, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2009-0519 →CVE-2009-0520 →CVE-2009-0521 →

📋 Description

CVE-2009-0519 — flash-plugin: Input validation flaw (DoS) CVE-2009-0520 — flash-plugin: Buffer overflow (arbitrary code execution) via crafted SWF file. CVE-2009-0521 — flash-plugin: Linux-specific information disclosure (privilege escalation)

🎯 Affected products4

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5)
  • flash-plugin-0:10.0.22.87-1.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5)
  • flash-plugin-0:10.0.22.87-1.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5)

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

🔗 References (8)