RHEL 5 / 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2013:0574)

high Nessus Plugin ID 64924

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-2013:0574 advisory.

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

This update fixes two vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities are detailed in the Adobe Security bulletin APSB13-08, 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 malicious SWF content. (CVE-2013-0504, CVE-2013-0648)

This update also fixes a permissions issue with the Adobe Flash Player Firefox sandbox. (CVE-2013-0643)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.273.

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

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-2013:0574.

See Also

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-08.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?37ffa8d4

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0574

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=915961

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=915964

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 64924

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0574.nasl

Version: 1.30

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/28/2013

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

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-2013-0504

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0648

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2013

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0504, CVE-2013-0643, CVE-2013-0648

BID: 58184, 58185, 58186

RHSA: 2013:0574