RHEL 5 / 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2012:1346)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 62471

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities are detailed on the Adobe security page APSB12-22, listed in the References section. Specially crafted SWF content could cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when a victim loads a page containing the malicious SWF content.
(CVE-2012-5248, CVE-2012-5249, CVE-2012-5250, CVE-2012-5251, CVE-2012-5252, CVE-2012-5253, CVE-2012-5254, CVE-2012-5255, CVE-2012-5256, CVE-2012-5257, CVE-2012-5258, CVE-2012-5259, CVE-2012-5260, CVE-2012-5261, CVE-2012-5262, CVE-2012-5263, CVE-2012-5264, CVE-2012-5265, CVE-2012-5266, CVE-2012-5267, CVE-2012-5268, CVE-2012-5269, CVE-2012-5270, CVE-2012-5271, CVE-2012-5272)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.243.

Solution

Update the affected flash-plugin package.

See Also

https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-22.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1346

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5249

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5248

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5269

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5268

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5265

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5264

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5267

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5266

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5261

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5260

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5263

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5262

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5254

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5255

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5256

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5257

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5250

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5251

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5252

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5253

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5272

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5258

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5259

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5270

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5271

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5285

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5286

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5287

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5673

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 62471

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1346.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2012

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flash-plugin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.3

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2012

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5248, CVE-2012-5249, CVE-2012-5250, CVE-2012-5251, CVE-2012-5252, CVE-2012-5253, CVE-2012-5254, CVE-2012-5255, CVE-2012-5256, CVE-2012-5257, CVE-2012-5258, CVE-2012-5259, CVE-2012-5260, CVE-2012-5261, CVE-2012-5262, CVE-2012-5263, CVE-2012-5264, CVE-2012-5265, CVE-2012-5266, CVE-2012-5267, CVE-2012-5268, CVE-2012-5269, CVE-2012-5270, CVE-2012-5271, CVE-2012-5272, CVE-2012-5285, CVE-2012-5286, CVE-2012-5287, CVE-2012-5673

BID: 55827

RHSA: 2012:1346