Executive Summary

Summary
Title Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201611-18 First vendor Publication 2016-11-22
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2016-11-22
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

The Adobe Flash Player is a renderer for the SWF file format, which is commonly used to provide interactive websites.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player.
Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Adobe Flash Player 23.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-23.0.0.205"

All Adobe Flash Player 11.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.635"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-7857
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7857
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-7858
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7858
[ 3 ] CVE-2016-7859
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7859
[ 4 ] CVE-2016-7860
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7860
[ 5 ] CVE-2016-7861
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7861
[ 6 ] CVE-2016-7862
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7862
[ 7 ] CVE-2016-7863
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7863
[ 8 ] CVE-2016-7864
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7864
[ 9 ] CVE-2016-7865
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7865

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-18

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201611-18.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
67 % CWE-416 Use After Free
33 % CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 439
Application 10

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player ASnative setFocus use after free attempt
RuleID : 40749 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player ASnative setFocus use after free attempt
RuleID : 40748 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player TextField use after free attempt
RuleID : 40747 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player TextField use after free attempt
RuleID : 40746 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Primetime SDK setObject type confusion attempt
RuleID : 40745 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Primetime SDK setObject type confusion attempt
RuleID : 40744 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player AVSegmentedSource use after free attempt
RuleID : 40743 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player AVSegmentedSource use after free attempt
RuleID : 40742 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player addCallback use after free attempt
RuleID : 40741 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player addCallback use after free attempt
RuleID : 40740 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player ActionExtends use after free attempt
RuleID : 40739 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Adobe Flash Player ActionExtends use after free attempt
RuleID : 40738 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player Primetime SDK AdvertisingMetadata type confustion attempt
RuleID : 40737 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash Player Primetime SDK AdvertisingMetadata type confustion attempt
RuleID : 40736 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash MovieClip proto chain manipulation targeting constructor use afte...
RuleID : 40735 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2016-12-13 Adobe Flash MovieClip proto chain manipulation targeting constructor use afte...
RuleID : 40734 - 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

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-11-23 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201611-18.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-14 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1286.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-11 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_96f6bf10a73111e695ca0011d823eebd.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-11 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1285.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-11 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2778-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-10 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-2676.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-08 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by a ...
File : flash_player_apsb16-37.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-08 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host has a browser plugin installed that is affe...
File : macosx_flash_player_apsb16-37.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-08 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by mu...
File : smb_nt_ms16-141.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
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2016-11-24 13:26:07
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2016-11-22 13:23:17
  • First insertion