Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title flash-plugin security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2015:2697 First vendor Publication 2015-12-29
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2015-12-29
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 multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security 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, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin APSB16-01 listed in the References section, could allow an attacker to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content. (CVE-2015-8459, CVE-2015-8460, CVE-2015-8634, CVE-2015-8635, CVE-2015-8636, CVE-2015-8638, CVE-2015-8639, CVE-2015-8640, CVE-2015-8641, CVE-2015-8642, CVE-2015-8643, CVE-2015-8644, CVE-2015-8645, CVE-2015-8646, CVE-2015-8647, CVE-2015-8648, CVE-2015-8649, CVE-2015-8650, CVE-2015-8651)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.559.

4. Solution:

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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

1294580 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2697.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
67 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
17 % CWE-416 Use After Free
17 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 35
Application 22
Application 393
Application 1
Application 8

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2020-09-19 Adobe Flash Player AVM domain memory range integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 54826 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2020-09-19 Adobe Flash Player AVM domain memory range integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 54825 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-22 Adobe Flash Player ASnative use after free attempt
RuleID : 37792 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-22 Adobe Flash Player ASnative use after free attempt
RuleID : 37791 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-22 Adobe Flash Player ASnative use after free attempt
RuleID : 37790 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-22 Adobe Flash Player ASnative use after free attempt
RuleID : 37789 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player SimpleButton constructor type confusion attempt
RuleID : 37353 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player SimpleButton constructor type confusion attempt
RuleID : 37352 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player invalid parent pointer use after free attempt
RuleID : 37351 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player invalid parent pointer use after free attempt
RuleID : 37350 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player improper display list handling memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 37347 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player improper display list handling memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 37346 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player improper display list handling memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 37345 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player improper display list handling memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 37344 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player improper display list handling memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 37256 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player improper display list handling memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 37255 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player improper display list handling memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 37254 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player improper display list handling memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 37253 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player removeMovieClip use after free attempt
RuleID : 37252 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player removeMovieClip use after free attempt
RuleID : 37251 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player removeMovieClip use after free attempt
RuleID : 37250 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player removeMovieClip use after free attempt
RuleID : 37249 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player removeMovieClip use after free attempt
RuleID : 37248 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player removeMovieClip use after free attempt
RuleID : 37247 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player canvas out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 37241 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player canvas out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 37240 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player object hasOwnProperty use after free attempt
RuleID : 37239 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player object hasOwnProperty use after free attempt
RuleID : 37238 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player object hasOwnProperty use after free attempt
RuleID : 37237 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player object hasOwnProperty use after free attempt
RuleID : 37236 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player removeMovieClip use after free attempt
RuleID : 37235 - Revision : 9 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player removeMovieClip use after free attempt
RuleID : 37234 - Revision : 9 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player getBounds method use after free attempt
RuleID : 37232 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player getBounds method use after free attempt
RuleID : 37231 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player MovieClip method use after free attempt
RuleID : 37230 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player MovieClip method use after free attempt
RuleID : 37229 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player overly large bitmap integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37224 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player overly large bitmap integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37223 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player Date with invalid parameter toTimeString attempt
RuleID : 37221 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player Date with invalid parameter toTimeString attempt
RuleID : 37220 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player MovieClip setMask use after free attempt
RuleID : 37219 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player MovieClip setMask use after free attempt
RuleID : 37218 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player MovieClip setMask use after free attempt
RuleID : 37217 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player MovieClip setMask use after free attempt
RuleID : 37216 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player LoadVars decode use after free attempt
RuleID : 37211 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player LoadVars decode use after free attempt
RuleID : 37210 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player LoadVars decode use after free attempt
RuleID : 37209 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player LoadVars decode use after free attempt
RuleID : 37208 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player object.addProperty method use after free attempt
RuleID : 37206 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player object.addProperty method use after free attempt
RuleID : 37205 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player object.addProperty method use after free attempt
RuleID : 37204 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player object.addProperty method use after free attempt
RuleID : 37203 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Standalone Player ASSetPropFlags use after free attempt
RuleID : 37202 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Standalone Player ASSetPropFlags use after free attempt
RuleID : 37201 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player multiple script render display use after free attempt
RuleID : 37200 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player multiple script render display use after free attempt
RuleID : 37199 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player AVM domain memory range integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37198 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player AVM domain memory range integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37197 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player AVM domain memory range integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37196 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-03-14 Adobe Flash Player AVM domain memory range integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37195 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-01-27 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201601-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-04 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-975.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-04 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-2401-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-04 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-2402-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-30 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_84c7ea88bf044bdc973b36744bf540ab.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-30 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-2697.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-30 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by mu...
File : smb_kb3132372.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-29 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by mu...
File : adobe_air_apsb16-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-29 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by mu...
File : flash_player_apsb16-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-29 Name : The remote Mac OS X host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by m...
File : macosx_adobe_air_apsb16-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-29 Name : The remote Mac OS X host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by m...
File : macosx_flash_player_apsb16-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-01-05 09:26:23
  • Multiple Updates
2015-12-31 13:26:16
  • Multiple Updates
2015-12-29 21:28:20
  • Multiple Updates
2015-12-29 17:23:26
  • First insertion