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RHEL 5 / 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2015:1184)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 84391

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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.

Red Hat Product Security 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.

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-2015-3113)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.468.

Solution

Update the affected flash-plugin package.

See Also

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-14.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1184

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-3113

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 84391

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1184.nasl

Version: 2.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/25/2015

Updated: 4/22/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

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-2015-3113

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.6, 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: 6/24/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2015

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/4/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player Nellymoser Audio Decoding Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3113

BID: 75371

RHSA: 2015:1184