SUSE SLED11 Security Update : flash-player (SUSE-SU-2015:1742-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 86399

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

flash-player was updated to version 11.2.202.535 to fix 13 security issues (bsc#950169).

These security issues were fixed :

- A vulnerability that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin-policy and lead to information disclosure (CVE-2015-7628).

- A defense-in-depth feature in the Flash broker API (CVE-2015-5569).

- Use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-7629, CVE-2015-7631, CVE-2015-7643, CVE-2015-7644).

- A buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-7632).

- Memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-7625, CVE-2015-7626, CVE-2015-7627, CVE-2015-7630, CVE-2015-7633, CVE-2015-7634).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-flash-player-12127=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-flash-player-12127=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 86399

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1742-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/15/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:flash-player, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:flash-player-gnome, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:flash-player-kde4, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5569, CVE-2015-7625, CVE-2015-7626, CVE-2015-7627, CVE-2015-7628, CVE-2015-7629, CVE-2015-7630, CVE-2015-7631, CVE-2015-7632, CVE-2015-7633, CVE-2015-7634, CVE-2015-7643, CVE-2015-7644

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