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-2016:1423 First vendor Publication 2016-07-13
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2016-07-13
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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 update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) 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 upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.632.

Security Fix(es):

* This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin 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-2016-4172, CVE-2016-4173, CVE-2016-4174, CVE-2016-4175, CVE-2016-4176, CVE-2016-4177, CVE-2016-4178, CVE-2016-4179, CVE-2016-4180, CVE-2016-4181, CVE-2016-4182, CVE-2016-4183, CVE-2016-4184, CVE-2016-4185, CVE-2016-4186, CVE-2016-4187, CVE-2016-4188, CVE-2016-4189, CVE-2016-4190, CVE-2016-4217, CVE-2016-4218, CVE-2016-4219, CVE-2016-4220, CVE-2016-4221, CVE-2016-4222, CVE-2016-4223, CVE-2016-4224, CVE-2016-4225, CVE-2016-4226, CVE-2016-4227, CVE-2016-4228, CVE-2016-4229, CVE-2016-4230, CVE-2016-4231, CVE-2016-4232, CVE-2016-4233, CVE-2016-4234, CVE-2016-4235, CVE-2016-4236, CVE-2016-4237, CVE-2016-4238, CVE-2016-4239, CVE-2016-4240, CVE-2016-4241, CVE-2016-4242, CVE-2016-4243, CVE-2016-4244, CVE-2016-4245, CVE-2016-4246, CVE-2016-4247, CVE-2016-4248, CVE-2016-4249)

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

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

1355971 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-25

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1423.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
73 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
22 % CWE-416 Use After Free
2 % CWE-401 Failure to Release Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak')
2 % CWE-362 Race Condition

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 417
Application 2

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2018-08-16 Adobe Flash Player ActionScript setFocus use after free attempt
RuleID : 47224 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-PDF
2018-08-16 Adobe Flash Player ActionScript setFocus use after free attempt
RuleID : 47223 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-PDF
2018-06-05 Adobe Flash Player ActionScript setFocus use after free attempt
RuleID : 46491 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-PDF
2018-06-05 Adobe Flash Player ActionScript setFocus use after free attempt
RuleID : 46490 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-PDF
2017-09-19 Adobe Flash Player Rectangle constructor use after free attempt
RuleID : 44017 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2017-09-19 Adobe Flash Player Rectangle constructor use after free attempt
RuleID : 44016 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2017-06-20 Adobe Flash Player DefineBitsJPEG2 invalid length memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 42931 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2017-06-20 Adobe Flash Player DefineBitsJPEG2 invalid length memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 42930 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2017-02-21 Adobe Flash Player StyleSheets use after free attempt
RuleID : 41354 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2017-02-21 Adobe Flash Player StyleSheets use after free attempt
RuleID : 41353 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player AS2 custom getter addProperty use after free attempt
RuleID : 40219 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player AS2 custom getter addProperty use after free attempt
RuleID : 40218 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-25 Adobe Flash Player Rectangle constructor use after free attempt
RuleID : 39728 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-25 Adobe Flash Player Rectangle constructor use after free attempt
RuleID : 39727 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player PrintJobOptions use-after-free attempt
RuleID : 39712 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player PrintJobOptions use-after-free attempt
RuleID : 39711 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ActionScript setFocus use after free attempt
RuleID : 39704 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-PDF
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ActionScript setFocus use after free attempt
RuleID : 39703 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-PDF
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player MediaPlayerItemLoader out of bounds memory access attempt
RuleID : 39702 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player MediaPlayerItemLoader out of bounds memory access attempt
RuleID : 39701 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ABRControlParameters access memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39698 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ABRControlParameters access memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39697 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ABRControlParameters access memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39696 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ABRControlParameters access memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39695 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ABRControlParameters access memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39694 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ABRControlParameters access memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39693 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ABRControlParameters access memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39692 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ABRControlParameters access memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39691 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ABRControlParameters access memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39690 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-23 Adobe Flash Player ABRControlParameters access memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39689 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-18 Adobe Flash Player Transform getter use after free attempt
RuleID : 39659 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-18 Adobe Flash Player Transform getter use after free attempt
RuleID : 39658 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-18 Adobe Flash Player JPEG handling memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39657 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-18 Adobe Flash Player JPEG handling memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39656 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player malformed TagTypeAndLength field attempt
RuleID : 39592 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player malformed TagTypeAndLength field attempt
RuleID : 39591 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player Transform object use after free attempt
RuleID : 39572 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player Transform object use after free attempt
RuleID : 39571 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player malformed tag parsing memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39566 - Revision : 6 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player malformed tag parsing memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39565 - Revision : 6 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player TimedEvent memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39564 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player TimedEvent memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39563 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player Stage align use aftre free attempt
RuleID : 39559 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player Stage align use aftre free attempt
RuleID : 39558 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player AdBreakPlacement object memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39555 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player AdBreakPlacement object memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39554 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player ByteArray type confusion memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39553 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player ByteArray type confusion memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39552 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player MovieClip method loop use-after-free attempt
RuleID : 39551 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player MovieClip method loop use-after-free attempt
RuleID : 39550 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player AdTimelineItem object memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39549 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player AdTimelineItem object memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 39548 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player local-with-filesystem security bypass attempt
RuleID : 39545 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player local-with-filesystem security bypass attempt
RuleID : 39544 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player local-with-filesystem security bypass attempt
RuleID : 39543 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player local-with-filesystem security bypass attempt
RuleID : 39542 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player local-with-filesystem security bypass attempt
RuleID : 39541 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player local-with-filesystem security bypass attempt
RuleID : 39540 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player malformed tag out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 39539 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-08-13 Adobe Flash Player malformed tag out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 39538 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-06-14 Adobe Flash Player DeleteRangeTimelineOperation type confusion attempt
RuleID : 38875 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-06-14 Adobe Flash Player DeleteRangeTimelineOperation type confusion attempt
RuleID : 38874 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-FLASH

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-10-31 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201610-10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-27 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1123.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-16 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1083.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-16 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2312-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-18 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_a522d6ac4aed11e697ea002590263bf5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-15 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-870.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201607-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-866.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-1423.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-12 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by mu...
File : flash_player_apsb16-25.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-12 Name : The remote Mac OS X host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by m...
File : macosx_flash_player_apsb16-25.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-12 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by mu...
File : smb_nt_ms16-093.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2018-01-05 09:26:23
  • Multiple Updates
2016-07-18 13:25:14
  • Multiple Updates
2016-07-15 01:01:55
  • Multiple Updates
2016-07-14 00:25:23
  • Multiple Updates
2016-07-13 21:24:07
  • First insertion