Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. adobe-flash 2016-11-22 2016-11-22: 2 599204 remote 23.0.0.207 11.2.202.644 23.0.0.207

The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Adobe Flash Player 23.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-23.0.0.207"

All Adobe Flash Player 11.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.644"

CVE-2016-7857 CVE-2016-7858 CVE-2016-7859 CVE-2016-7860 CVE-2016-7861 CVE-2016-7862 CVE-2016-7863 CVE-2016-7864 CVE-2016-7865 b-man b-man