SUSE SLED11 Security Update : flash-player (SUSE-SU-2015:1771-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 86442

Synopsis

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

Description

flash-player was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

- CVE-2015-7645: Critical vulnerability affecting 11.2.202.535 used in Pawn Storm (APSA15-05) (bsc#950474).

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 Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-flash-player-12139=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-flash-player-12139=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950474

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7645/

http://www.nessus.org/u?4941a351

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 86442

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1771-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/19/2015

Updated: 3/8/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:flash-player-kde4, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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: 10/16/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2015

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/24/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7645