Executive Summary

Summary
Title flash-plugin security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2014:0028 First vendor Publication 2014-01-15
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2014-01-15
Severity (Vendor) Critical Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes two 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

3. Description:

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 in the Adobe Security bulletin APSB14-02, listed in the References section. Specially-crafted SWF content could cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when a victim loads a page containing the malicious SWF content. (CVE-2014-0491, CVE-2014-0492)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.335.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1053233 - CVE-2014-0491 flash-plugin: security protection bypass (APSB14-02) 1053235 - CVE-2014-0492 flash-plugin: memory address layout randomization defeat (APSB14-02)

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0028.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22228
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22228
Title: Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.260 and 11.8.x and 11.9.x before 12.0.0.38 on Windows, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1390, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1390, and Adobe AIR SDK and Compiler before 4.0.0.1390 allow attackers to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism by leveraging an "address leak."
Description: Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.260 and 11.8.x and 11.9.x before 12.0.0.38 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.335 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1390, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1390, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1390 allow attackers to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism by leveraging an "address leak."
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2014-0492
 Version: 9
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 8.1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
 Product(s): Adobe Flash Player
Adobe AIR
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22499
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22499
Title: RHSA-2014:0028: flash-plugin security update (Critical)
Description: Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.260 and 11.8.x and 11.9.x before 12.0.0.38 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.335 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1390, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1390, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1390 allow attackers to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism by leveraging an "address leak."
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2014:0028-00
CVE-2014-0491
CVE-2014-0492
 Version: 25
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
 Product(s): flash-plugin
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22530
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22530
Title: Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.260 and 11.8.x and 11.9.x before 12.0.0.38 on Windows, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1390, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1390, and Adobe AIR SDK and Compiler before 4.0.0.1390 allow attackers to bypass unspecified protection mechanisms via unknown vectors.
Description: Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.260 and 11.8.x and 11.9.x before 12.0.0.38 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.335 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1390, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1390, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1390 allow attackers to bypass unspecified protection mechanisms via unknown vectors.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2014-0491
 Version: 9
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 8.1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
 Product(s): Adobe Flash Player
Adobe AIR
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24087
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24087
Title: ELSA-2014:0028: flash-plugin security update (Critical)
Description: Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.260 and 11.8.x and 11.9.x before 12.0.0.38 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.335 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1390, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1390, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1390 allow attackers to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism by leveraging an "address leak."
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2014:0028-00
CVE-2014-0491
CVE-2014-0492
 Version: 13
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
 Product(s): flash-plugin
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25528
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25528
Title: SUSE-SU-2014:0116-1 -- Security update for flash-player
Description: This update fixes the following security issues with flash-player: * flash-player: security protection bypass (bnc#858822)(APSB14-02) o These updates resolve a vulnerability that could be used to bypass Flash Player security protections (CVE-2014-0491). o These updates resolve an address leak vulnerability that could be used to defeat memory address layout randomization (CVE-2014-0492). o Ref.: http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14 -02.html <http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb1 4-02.html>
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2014:0116-1
CVE-2014-0491
CVE-2014-0492
 Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
 Product(s): flash-player
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 302

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2014-01-16 IAVM : 2014-A-0001 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player and AIR
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0043404

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-03-22 Adobe Flash Player ActionScript bytecode object type confusion information di...
RuleID : 29836 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2014-03-22 Adobe Flash Player ActionScript bytecode object type confusion information di...
RuleID : 29835 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-78.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-07 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201402-06.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-24 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_c0ef849e84ac11e3bec49c4e36909cc0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-22 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_flash-player-140116.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-16 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2014-0028.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-14 Name : The remote Windows host contains a version of Adobe AIR that is affected by m...
File : adobe_air_apsb14-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-14 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin that is affected by multiple vul...
File : flash_player_apsb14-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-14 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a version of Adobe AIR that is affected by ...
File : macosx_adobe_air_4_0_0_1390.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-14 Name : The remote Mac OS X host has a browser plugin that is affected by multiple vu...
File : macosx_flash_player_12_0_0_38.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-14 Name : The remote host has an ActiveX control installed that is affected by multiple...
File : smb_kb2916626.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:57:45
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-17 17:22:10
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-15 21:26:59
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-15 13:18:14
  • First insertion