RHEL 5 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2010:0829)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63956

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 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 APSB10-26, 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-2010-3639, CVE-2010-3640, CVE-2010-3641, CVE-2010-3642, CVE-2010-3643, CVE-2010-3644, CVE-2010-3645, CVE-2010-3646, CVE-2010-3647, CVE-2010-3648, CVE-2010-3649, CVE-2010-3650, CVE-2010-3652, CVE-2010-3654)

An input validation flaw was discovered in flash-plugin. Certain server encodings could lead to a bypass of cross-domain policy file restrictions, possibly leading to cross-domain information disclosure.
(CVE-2010-3636)

During testing, it was discovered that there were regressions with Flash Player on certain sites, such as fullscreen playback on YouTube.
Despite these regressions, we feel these security flaws are serious enough to update the package with what Adobe has provided.

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 10.1.102.64.

Solution

Update the affected flash-plugin package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3636

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3639

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3640

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3641

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3642

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3643

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3644

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3645

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3646

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3647

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3648

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3649

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3650

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3652

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3654

https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-26.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0829

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63956

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0829.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 11/5/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2010

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player "Button" Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3636, CVE-2010-3637, CVE-2010-3638, CVE-2010-3639, CVE-2010-3640, CVE-2010-3641, CVE-2010-3642, CVE-2010-3643, CVE-2010-3644, CVE-2010-3645, CVE-2010-3646, CVE-2010-3647, CVE-2010-3648, CVE-2010-3649, CVE-2010-3650, CVE-2010-3652, CVE-2010-3654

BID: 44504, 44675, 44677, 44678, 44679, 44680, 44681, 44682, 44683, 44684, 44685, 44686, 44687, 44691, 44692

RHSA: 2010:0829