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RHEL 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2018:3795)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 119489

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for flash-plugin.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3795 advisory.

 The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in.

 This update upgrades Flash Player to version 32.0.0.101.

 Security Fix(es):

 * flash-plugin: ArbitraryCode Execution vulnerability (APSB18-42) (CVE-2018-15982)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL flash-plugin package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:3795.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4806750c

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-42.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3795

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1656585

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 119489

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3795.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15982

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flash-plugin

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2019

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 8/15/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15982

CWE: 416

RHSA: 2018:3795