Detections
Analytics
Flash Player <= 16.0.0.296 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-04)
high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8660
Synopsis
The remote host is running an outdated version of Adobe Flash Player for Internet Explorer that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.Description
Versions of Adobe Flash player equal or prior to 16.0.0.296 are outdated and thus unpatched for the following vulnerabilities :- Several use-after-free errors exist that allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-0313, CVE-2015-0315, CVE-2015-0320, CVE-2015-0322)
- Several memory corruption errors exist that allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-0314, CVE-2015-0316, CVE-2015-0318, CVE-2015-0321, CVE-2015-0329, CVE-2015-0330)
- Several type confusion errors exist that allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-0317, CVE-2015-0319)
- Several heap-based buffer overflow errors exist that allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-0323, CVE-2015-0327)
- A buffer overflow error exists that allows arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-0324
- Several NULL pointer dereference errors exist that have unspecified impacts. (CVE-2015-0325, CVE-2015-0326, CVE-2015-0328).
- A use-after-free error exists within the processing of invalid m3u8 playlists. A remote attacker, with a specially crafted m3u8 playlist file, can force a dangling pointer to be reused after it has been freed, allowing the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-0331)
Solution
Upgrade to Adobe Flash Player version 16.0.0.305 or later.\n\nAlternatively, Adobe has made version 13.0.0.269 available for those installs that cannot be upgraded to 16.x.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?0cb17c10
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-04.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 8660
Family: Web Clients
Published: 3/27/2015
Updated: 3/6/2019
Nessus ID: 81127
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Critical
Score: 9.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 8.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.1
Temporal Score: 7.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:X/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:flash_player
Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/2/2015
Exploitable With
CANVAS (CANVAS)
Metasploit (windows/browser/adobe_flash_pcre.rb)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2015-0313, CVE-2015-0314, CVE-2015-0315, CVE-2015-0316, CVE-2015-0317, CVE-2015-0318, CVE-2015-0319, CVE-2015-0320, CVE-2015-0321, CVE-2015-0322, CVE-2015-0323, CVE-2015-0324, CVE-2015-0325, CVE-2015-0326, CVE-2015-0327, CVE-2015-0328, CVE-2015-0329, CVE-2015-0330, CVE-2015-0331