Executive Summary

Summary
Title Adobe Flash Player: Remote execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-201710-22 First vendor Publication 2017-10-22
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-10-22
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:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player might allow 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

A critical type confusion vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player.

Impact

A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Adobe Flash Player users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-27.0.0.170"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-11292 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-11292

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-22

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201710-22.xml

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 484
Application 3

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2017-11-16 Adobe Flash Player array type confusion attempt
RuleID : 44584 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH
2017-11-16 Adobe Flash Player array type confusion attempt
RuleID : 44583 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-FLASH

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-10-23 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201710-22.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-18 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by a ...
File : flash_player_apsb17-32.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-18 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host has a browser plugin installed that is affe...
File : macosx_flash_player_apsb17-32.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-18 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-2899.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-18 Name : The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by a ...
File : smb_nt_ms17_oct_4049179.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-17 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_a73518dab2fa11e798efd43d7ef03aa6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-11-08 00:25:35
  • Multiple Updates
2017-10-24 13:25:29
  • Multiple Updates
2017-10-23 09:25:17
  • Multiple Updates
2017-10-22 05:21:52
  • First insertion