openSUSE Security Update : swfdec (swfdec-524)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40141

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The free Flash decoder engine 'swfdec' was updated to version 0.6.8 to fix lots of crashers which are likely security relevant and could be exploited to remotely execute code. (CVE-2008-3796)

Solution

Update the affected swfdec packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=421004

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40141

File Name: suse_11_0_swfdec-090212.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:swfdec, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:swfdec-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3796

CWE: 20