Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player for Linux 10.0.12.36, and 9.0.151.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SWF file.

An unspecified vulnerability in flash-player allowed attackers to take control of the victim's system by having the victim load a specially crafted SWF file. (CVE-2008-5499)

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extras, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The flash-plugin package contains a Firefox-compatible Adobe Flash Player Web browser plug-in.

A security flaw was found in the way Flash Player displayed certain SWF (Shockwave Flash) content. This may have made it possible to execute arbitrary code on a victim's machine, if the victim opened a malicious Adobe Flash file. (CVE-2008-5499)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 10.0.15.3 for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary, and 9.0.152.0 for users of Red Hat Enterprise 3 and 4 Extras.

An unspecified vulnerability in flash-player allowed attackers to take control of the victim's system by having the victim load a specially crafted SWF file (CVE-2008-5499).

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200903-23 (Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player:
    The access scope of SystemsetClipboard() allows ActionScript     programs to execute the method without user interaction     (CVE-2008-3873).
    The access scope of FileReference.browse() and     FileReference.download() allows ActionScript programs to execute the     methods without user interaction (CVE-2008-4401).
    The Settings Manager controls can be disguised as normal graphical     elements. This so-called 'clickjacking' vulnerability was disclosed by     Robert Hansen of SecTheory, Jeremiah Grossman of WhiteHat Security,     Eduardo Vela, Matthew Mastracci of DotSpots, and Liu Die Yu of     TopsecTianRongXin (CVE-2008-4503).
    Adan Barth (UC Berkely) and Collin Jackson (Stanford University)     discovered a flaw occurring when interpreting HTTP response headers     (CVE-2008-4818).
    Nathan McFeters and Rob Carter of Ernst and Young's Advanced     Security Center are credited for finding an unspecified vulnerability     facilitating DNS rebinding attacks (CVE-2008-4819).
    When used in a Mozilla browser, Adobe Flash Player does not     properly interpret jar: URLs, according to a report by Gregory     Fleischer of pseudo-flaw.net (CVE-2008-4821).
    Alex 'kuza55' K. reported that Adobe Flash Player does not properly     interpret policy files (CVE-2008-4822).
    The vendor credits Stefano Di Paola of Minded Security for     reporting that an ActionScript attribute is not interpreted properly     (CVE-2008-4823).
    Riley Hassell and Josh Zelonis of iSEC Partners reported multiple     input validation errors (CVE-2008-4824).
    The aforementioned researchers also reported that ActionScript 2     does not verify a member element's size when performing several known     and other unspecified actions, that DefineConstantPool accepts an     untrusted input value for a 'constant count' and that character     elements are not validated when retrieved from a data structure,     possibly resulting in a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2008-5361,     CVE-2008-5362, CVE-2008-5363).
    The vendor reported an unspecified arbitrary code execution     vulnerability (CVE-2008-5499).
    Liu Die Yu of TopsecTianRongXin reported an unspecified flaw in the     Settings Manager related to 'clickjacking' (CVE-2009-0114).
    The vendor credits Roee Hay from IBM Rational Application Security     for reporting an input validation error when processing SWF files     (CVE-2009-0519).
    Javier Vicente Vallejo reported via the iDefense VCP that Adobe     Flash does not remove object references properly, leading to a freed     memory dereference (CVE-2009-0520).
    Josh Bressers of Red Hat and Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security     Team reported an untrusted search path vulnerability     (CVE-2009-0521).
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted SWF     file, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the     privileges of the user or a Denial of Service (crash). Furthermore a     remote attacker could gain access to sensitive information, disclose     memory contents by enticing a user to open a specially crafted PDF file     inside a Flash application, modify the victim's clipboard or render it     temporarily unusable, persuade a user into uploading or downloading     files, bypass security restrictions with the assistance of the user to     gain access to camera and microphone, conduct Cross-Site Scripting and     HTTP Header Splitting attacks, bypass the 'non-root domain policy' of     Flash, and gain escalated privileges.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
51729	SuSE 10 Security Update : flash-player (ZYPP Patch Number 5877)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
40736	RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2008:1047)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
40215	openSUSE Security Update : flash-player (flash-player-378)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
39961	openSUSE Security Update : flash-player (flash-player-378)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
35904	GLSA-200903-23 : Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	critical
35246	openSUSE 10 Security Update : flash-player (flash-player-5878)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2008-5499

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high

critical

high