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RHEL 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2014:0447)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 73780

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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-2014:0447 advisory.

 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 in the Adobe Security Bulletin APSB14-13, listed in the References section.

 A flaw was found in the way flash-plugin displayed certain SWF content. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content.
 (CVE-2014-0515)

 All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.356.

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-2014:0447.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a4886394

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-13.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0447

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092116

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 73780

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0447.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2014

Updated: 4/15/2025

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: 9.6

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-2014-0515

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: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: 4/29/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2014

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player Shader Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0515

RHSA: 2014:0447