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Flash Player For Mac <= 15.0.0.189 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB14-24)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 79143

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Synopsis

The remote Mac OS X host has a browser plugin that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

According to its version, the installation of Adobe Flash Player installed on the remote Mac OS X host is equal or prior to 15.0.0.189.
It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-0576, CVE-2014-0581, CVE-2014-8440, CVE-2014-8441)

 - Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities could result in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-0573, CVE-2014-0588, CVE-2014-8438, CVE-2014-0574)

 - Multiple type confusion vulnerabilities could result in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-0577, CVE-2014-0584, CVE-2014-0585, CVE-2014-0586, CVE-2014-0590)

 - Multiple heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities can be exploited to execute arbitrary code or elevate privileges. (CVE-2014-0583, CVE-2014-0582, CVE-2014-0589)

 - A permission issue that allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2014-8442)

 - An information disclosure vulnerability can be exploited to disclose secret session tokens. (CVE-2014-8437)

Solution

Upgrade to Adobe Flash Player version 15.0.0.223 or later.

Alternatively, Adobe has made version 13.0.0.252 available for those installations that cannot be upgraded to 15.x.

See Also

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-24.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?0cb17c10

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 79143

File Name: macosx_flash_player_15_0_0_223.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 11/12/2014

Updated: 11/25/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8441

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:flash_player

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Flash_Player/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2014

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player UncompressViaZlibVariant Uninitialized Memory)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0573, CVE-2014-0574, CVE-2014-0576, CVE-2014-0577, CVE-2014-0581, CVE-2014-0582, CVE-2014-0583, CVE-2014-0584, CVE-2014-0585, CVE-2014-0586, CVE-2014-0588, CVE-2014-0589, CVE-2014-0590, CVE-2014-8437, CVE-2014-8438, CVE-2014-8440, CVE-2014-8441, CVE-2014-8442

BID: 71033, 71035, 71036, 71037, 71038, 71039, 71040, 71041, 71042, 71043, 71044, 71045, 71046, 71047, 71048, 71049, 71050, 71051