Flash Player for Mac <= 10.3.181.36 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB11-21)
High Nessus Plugin ID 55804
Synopsis
The remote Mac OS X host has a browser plugin that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
Description
According to its version, the instance of Flash Player installed on the remote Mac OS X host is 10.3.181.36 or earlier. As such, it is reportedly affected by several critical vulnerabilities :
- Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities could lead to code execution. (CVE-2011-2130, CVE-2011-2134, CVE-2011-2137, CVE-2011-2414, CVE-2011-2415)
- Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities could lead to code execution. (CVE-2011-2135, CVE-2011-2140, CVE-2011-2417, CVE-2011-2424, CVE-2011-2425)
- Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities could lead to code execution. (CVE-2011-2136, CVE-2011-2138, CVE-2011-2416)
- A cross-site information disclosure vulnerability exists that could lead to code execution. (CVE-2011-2139)
By tricking a user on the affected system into opening a specially crafted document with Flash content, an attacker could leverage these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code remotely on the system subject to the user's privileges.
Solution
Upgrade to Adobe Flash for Mac version 10.3.183.5 or later.