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RHEL 5 / 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2012:0688)

high Nessus Plugin ID 59253

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

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

This update fixes one vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. This vulnerability is detailed on the Adobe security page APSB12-09, listed in the References section. Specially crafted SWF content could cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when a victim loads a page containing the specially crafted SWF content.
(CVE-2012-0779)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 10.3.183.19.

Solution

Update the affected flash-plugin package.

See Also

https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-09.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0688

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0779

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 59253

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0688.nasl

Version: 1.29

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/24/2012

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.2, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2012

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player Object Type Confusion)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0779

BID: 53395

RHSA: 2012:0688