RHEL 5 / 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2016:1865)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93503

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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

This update upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.635.

Security Fix(es) :

* This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player.
These vulnerabilities, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin listed in the References section, could allow an attacker to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content.
(CVE-2016-4271, CVE-2016-4272, CVE-2016-4274, CVE-2016-4275, CVE-2016-4276, CVE-2016-4277, CVE-2016-4278, CVE-2016-4279, CVE-2016-4280, CVE-2016-4281, CVE-2016-4282, CVE-2016-4283, CVE-2016-4284, CVE-2016-4285, CVE-2016-4287, CVE-2016-6921, CVE-2016-6922, CVE-2016-6923, CVE-2016-6924, CVE-2016-6925, CVE-2016-6926, CVE-2016-6927, CVE-2016-6929, CVE-2016-6930, CVE-2016-6931, CVE-2016-6932)

Solution

Update the affected flash-plugin package.

See Also

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-29.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1865

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6930

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6931

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6932

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4275

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4274

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4277

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4276

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4271

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4272

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4279

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4278

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6927

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6926

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6925

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6924

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6923

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6922

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6921

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-6929

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4280

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4281

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4282

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4283

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4284

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4285

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4287

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93503

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-1865.nasl

Version: 2.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2016

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

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 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: 9/14/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4271, CVE-2016-4272, CVE-2016-4274, CVE-2016-4275, CVE-2016-4276, CVE-2016-4277, CVE-2016-4278, CVE-2016-4279, CVE-2016-4280, CVE-2016-4281, CVE-2016-4282, CVE-2016-4283, CVE-2016-4284, CVE-2016-4285, CVE-2016-4287, CVE-2016-6921, CVE-2016-6922, CVE-2016-6923, CVE-2016-6924, CVE-2016-6925, CVE-2016-6926, CVE-2016-6927, CVE-2016-6929, CVE-2016-6930, CVE-2016-6931, CVE-2016-6932

RHSA: 2016:1865