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SUSE SLED12 Security Update : flash-player (SUSE-SU-2017:0108-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 96430

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update to Adobe Flash 24.0.0.194 fixes the following vulnerabilities advised under APSB17-02 :

 - security bypass vulnerability that could lead to information disclosure (CVE-2017-2938)

 - use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2017-2932, CVE-2017-2936, CVE-2017-2937)

 - heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2017-2927, CVE-2017-2933, CVE-2017-2934, CVE-2017-2935)

 - memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2017-2925, CVE-2017-2926, CVE-2017-2928, CVE-2017-2930, CVE-2017-2931)

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 Workstation Extension 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP1-2017-51=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2017-51=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019129

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2925/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2926/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2927/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2928/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2930/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2931/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2932/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2933/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2934/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2935/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2936/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2937/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2938/

http://www.nessus.org/u?d29ae69b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 96430

File Name: suse_SU-2017-0108-1.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/12/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: 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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:flash-player, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:flash-player-gnome, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 1/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2925, CVE-2017-2926, CVE-2017-2927, CVE-2017-2928, CVE-2017-2930, CVE-2017-2931, CVE-2017-2932, CVE-2017-2933, CVE-2017-2934, CVE-2017-2935, CVE-2017-2936, CVE-2017-2937, CVE-2017-2938