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-2016:1865 First vendor Publication 2016-09-14
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2016-09-14
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 11.2.202.635.

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-2016-4271, CVE-2016-4272, CVE-2016-4274, CVE-2016-4275, CVE-2016-4276, CVE-2016-4277, CVE-2016-4278, CVE-2016-4279, CVE-2016-4280, CVE-2016-4281, CVE-2016-4282, CVE-2016-4283, CVE-2016-4284, CVE-2016-4285, CVE-2016-4287, CVE-2016-6921, CVE-2016-6922, CVE-2016-6923, CVE-2016-6924, CVE-2016-6925, CVE-2016-6926, CVE-2016-6927, CVE-2016-6929, CVE-2016-6930, CVE-2016-6931, CVE-2016-6932)

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/):

1375725 - flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-29

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1865.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
48 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
48 % CWE-416 Use After Free
4 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 422
Application 2

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player local-with-filesystem sandbox escape attempt
RuleID : 40181 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player local-with-filesystem sandbox escape attempt
RuleID : 40180 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player local-with-filesystem sandbox escape attempt
RuleID : 40179 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player local-with-filesystem sandbox escape attempt
RuleID : 40178 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash ContextMenu Clone memory corruption vulnerability attempt
RuleID : 40177 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash ContextMenu Clone memory corruption vulnerability attempt
RuleID : 40176 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player out of bounds memory access attempt
RuleID : 40175 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player out of bounds memory access attempt
RuleID : 40174 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Standalone Flash Player out of bounds memory access attempt
RuleID : 40173 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Standalone Flash Player out of bounds memory access attempt
RuleID : 40172 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Standalone Flash Player use after free attempt
RuleID : 40171 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Standalone Flash Player use after free attempt
RuleID : 40170 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player DisplacementMapFilter use-after-free attempt
RuleID : 40169 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player DisplacementMapFilter use-after-free attempt
RuleID : 40168 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player ShimContentResolver out of bounds memory access attempt
RuleID : 40167 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player ShimContentResolver out of bounds memory access attempt
RuleID : 40166 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player navigatetoURL sandbox escape attempt
RuleID : 40165 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player navigatetoURL sandbox escape attempt
RuleID : 40164 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player navigatetoURL sandbox escape attempt
RuleID : 40163 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player navigatetoURL sandbox escape attempt
RuleID : 40162 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player navigatetoURL sandbox escape attempt
RuleID : 40161 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player NetStream type confusion attempt
RuleID : 40160 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-18 Adobe Flash Player NetStream type confusion attempt
RuleID : 40159 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-13 Adobe Flash Player malformed placeObject2 memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 40158 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-13 Adobe Flash Player malformed placeObject2 memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 40157 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-13 Adobe Flash AVC Decoder Memory Corruption attempt
RuleID : 40156 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-13 Adobe Flash AVC Decoder Memory Corruption attempt
RuleID : 40155 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-13 Adobe Flash Player malformed VideoFrame memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 40154 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-13 Adobe Flash Player malformed VideoFrame memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 40153 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-13 Adobe Flash Player DRMManager memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 40152 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-10-13 Adobe Flash Player DRMManager memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 40151 - Revision : 2 - 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
2016-09-15 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-1865.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-13 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by mu...
File : flash_player_apsb16-29.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-13 Name : The remote Mac OS X host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by m...
File : macosx_flash_player_apsb16-29.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-13 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by mu...
File : smb_nt_ms16-117.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-01-05 09:26:24
  • Multiple Updates
2016-09-16 13:24:48
  • Multiple Updates
2016-09-14 13:23:56
  • First insertion