FreeBSD : Adobe Flash Player -- critical vulnerability (37a87ade-a59f-11e4-958e-0011d823eebd)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 81009

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Adobe reports :

Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. We are aware of reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild via drive-by-download attacks against systems running Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows 8.1 and below.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-01.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?c4c162d5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 81009

File Name: freebsd_pkg_37a87adea59f11e4958e0011d823eebd.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Published: 1/27/2015

Updated: 4/22/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-c6-flashplugin, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-f10-flashplugin, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/26/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2015

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

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player ByteArray UncompressViaZlibVariant Use After Free)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0311