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RHEL 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2017:0275)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 97199

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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 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 24.0.0.221.

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-2017-2982, CVE-2017-2984, CVE-2017-2985, CVE-2017-2986, CVE-2017-2987, CVE-2017-2988, CVE-2017-2990, CVE-2017-2991, CVE-2017-2992, CVE-2017-2993, CVE-2017-2994, CVE-2017-2995, CVE-2017-2996)

Solution

Update the affected flash-plugin package.

See Also

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-04.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0275

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2982

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2984

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2985

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2986

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2987

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2988

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2990

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2991

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2992

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2993

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2995

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-2996

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 97199

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-0275.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2017

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: Critical

Score: 9.0

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: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: 2/15/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2982, CVE-2017-2984, CVE-2017-2985, CVE-2017-2986, CVE-2017-2987, CVE-2017-2988, CVE-2017-2990, CVE-2017-2991, CVE-2017-2992, CVE-2017-2993, CVE-2017-2995, CVE-2017-2996

RHSA: 2017:0275