Flash Player <= 16.0.0.235 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-01)

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8657

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 16.0.0.235 are outdated and thus unpatched for the following vulnerabilities :

- An unspecified improper file validation issue. (CVE-2015-0301)

- An unspecified information disclosure vulnerability, which can be exploited to capture keystrokes. (CVE-2015-0302)

- Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-0303, CVE-2015-0306)

- Multiple heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-0304, CVE-2015-0309)

- An unspecified type confusion vulnerability that can lead to code execution. (CVE-2015-0305)

- An out-of-bounds read vulnerability that can be exploited to leak memory addresses. (CVE-2015-0307)

- A use-after-free vulnerability that results in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-0308)

Solution

Upgrade to Adobe Flash Player version 16.0.0.257 or later.\n\nAlternatively, Adobe has made version 13.0.0.260 available for those installs that cannot be upgraded to 16.x.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 8657

Family: Web Clients

Published: 3/27/2015

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 80484

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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: 7.5

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:flash_player

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0301, CVE-2015-0302, CVE-2015-0303, CVE-2015-0304, CVE-2015-0305, CVE-2015-0306, CVE-2015-0307, CVE-2015-0308, CVE-2015-0309

BID: 72031, 72032, 72033, 72034, 72035, 72036, 72037, 72038, 72039

Detections

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