SUSE SLED12 Security Update : flash-player (SUSE-SU-2015:1136-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 84397

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Adobe Flash Player was updated to 11.2.202.468, fixing a security issue, where attackers could trigger a heap overflow and could execute code.

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

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-2015-279=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-279=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 84397

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1136-1.nasl

Version: 2.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/25/2015

Updated: 4/22/2022

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:flash-player, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:flash-player-gnome, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

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

Detections

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