openSUSE Security Update : flash-player (openSUSE-SU-2014:0197-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 75246

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Flash Player received an out of band critical security update to fix an integer underflow vulnerability that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the affected system (CVE-2014-0497).

More information can be found on:
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-04.html

Solution

Update the affected flash-player packages.

See Also

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-04.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862288

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00014.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 75246

File Name: openSUSE-2014-109.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:flash-player, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:flash-player-gnome, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:flash-player-kde4, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2014

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player Integer Underflow Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0497

BID: 65327