RHEL 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2018:0081)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105743

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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

This update upgrades Flash Player to version 28.0.0.137.

Security Fix(es) :

* This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player.
These vulnerabilities, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletins listed in the References section, could allow an attacker to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to disclose sensitive information or modify its settings when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content. (CVE-2017-11305, CVE-2018-4871)

Solution

Update the affected flash-plugin package.

See Also

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-42.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-01.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0081

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-11305

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-4871

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105743

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0081.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/11/2018

Updated: 10/24/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flash-plugin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11305, CVE-2018-4871

RHSA: 2018:0081