RHEL 5 / 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2011:1333)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56278

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for flash-plugin.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1333 advisory.

- acroread, flash-plugin: critical flaws fixed in APSB11-26 (CVE-2011-2426, CVE-2011-2427, CVE-2011-2428, CVE-2011-2430)

- acroread, flash-plugin: security control bypass information disclosure fixed in APSB11-26 (CVE-2011-2429)

- acroread, flash-plugin: Cross-site scripting vulnerability fixed in APSB11-26 (CVE-2011-2444)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-2011:1333.

See Also

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-26.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?54386785

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740201

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740204

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740388

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1333

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56278

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1333.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/23/2011

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-2430

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-2444

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2426, CVE-2011-2427, CVE-2011-2428, CVE-2011-2429, CVE-2011-2430, CVE-2011-2444

BID: 49710, 49714, 49715, 49716, 49717, 49718

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2011:1333