Re: Flash plugin 0-day vulnerability in the wild

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On 01/23/2015 10:25 AM, poma wrote:
> On 23.01.2015 15:12, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:44:23 +0100
>> poma <pomidorabelisima@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 23.01.2015 10:51, Martin Stransky wrote:
>>>> Folk,
>>>>
>>>> There's a live 0-day flash vulnerability which is not fixed yet
>>>> [1][2]. If you use flash plugin I recommend you to enable the
>>>> click-to-play mode for it.
>>> Are we covered with
>>> $ rpm -q flash-plugin
>>> flash-plugin-11.2.202.438-release.x86_64
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Ref.
>>> http://helpx.adobe.com/security.html
>> No. 
>>
>> http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-01.html
>>
>> kevin
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks for reference.
>
> Until this is resolved, is this a valid way:
> $ sandbox -X -T tmp -t sandbox_web_t firefox
> to cover this security issue, or can we isolate only libflashplayer.so,
> not the entire browser.
>
> Daniel, can you comment.
>
>
libflashplayer.so runs within the Mozilla-plugin I believe. If so it
would be confined
if you have not turned on the unconfined_mozilla_plugin_transition boolean.

If this is the case we are somewhat protected, and of course  you run
with setenforce 1.

sandbox -X will also add more protection.
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