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MS13-087: Vulnerability in Silverlight Could Allow Information Disclosure (2890788) (Mac OS X)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70341

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Synopsis

A multimedia application framework installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

The version of Microsoft Silverlight installed on the remote host is reportedly affected by an information disclosure vulnerability due to its failure to properly handle certain objects in memory.

If an attacker could trick a user on the affected system into visiting a website hosting a malicious Silverlight application, the attacker could leverage this vulnerability to disclose information from the affected system, subject to the user's privileges.

Solution

Microsoft has released a patch for Silverlight 5.

See Also

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-087

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70341

File Name: macosx_ms13-087.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 10/9/2013

Updated: 4/25/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-3896

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:silverlight

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MacOSX/Version, MacOSX/Silverlight/Installed

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2013

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/15/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (MS13-022 Microsoft Silverlight ScriptObject Unsafe Memory Access)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-3896

BID: 62793

MSFT: MS13-087

MSKB: 2890788