RHEL 5 / 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2012:0144)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 58027

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in.

This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player.
These vulnerabilities are detailed on the Adobe security page APSB12-03, listed in the References section.

Multiple security flaws were found in the way flash-plugin displayed certain SWF content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the specially crafted SWF content. (CVE-2012-0752, CVE-2012-0753, CVE-2012-0754, CVE-2012-0755, CVE-2012-0756)

A flaw in flash-plugin could allow an attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks if a victim were tricked into visiting a specially crafted web page. (CVE-2012-0767)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 10.3.183.15.

Solution

Update the affected flash-plugin package.

See Also

https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-03.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0144

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0767

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0752

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0753

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0756

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0754

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0755

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 58027

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0144.nasl

Version: 1.34

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2012

Updated: 6/8/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0756

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flash-plugin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2012

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/22/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player MP4 "cprt" Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0752, CVE-2012-0753, CVE-2012-0754, CVE-2012-0755, CVE-2012-0756, CVE-2012-0767

BID: 52032, 52033, 52034, 52035, 52036, 52040

RHSA: 2012:0144