An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in.
This update upgrades Flash Player to version 28.0.0.137.
Security Fix(es) :
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2018:0081. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(105743);
script_version("3.8");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/24 15:35:44");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-11305", "CVE-2018-4871");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2018:0081");
script_name(english:"RHEL 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2018:0081)");
script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6 Supplementary.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe
Flash Player web browser plug-in.
This update upgrades Flash Player to version 28.0.0.137.
Security Fix(es) :
* This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player.
These vulnerabilities, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletins listed
in the References section, could allow an attacker to create a
specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to disclose
sensitive information or modify its settings when the victim loaded a
page containing the malicious SWF content. (CVE-2017-11305,
CVE-2018-4871)"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-42.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-01.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0081"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-11305"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-4871"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected flash-plugin package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flash-plugin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/12/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/01/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/01/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 6.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);
yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo))
{
rhsa = "RHSA-2018:0081";
yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : yum_report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
}
}
else
{
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"flash-plugin-28.0.0.137-1.el6_9")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
flash_plugin_caveat = '\n' +
'NOTE: This vulnerability check only applies to RedHat released\n' +
'versions of the flash-plugin package. This check does not apply to\n' +
'Adobe released versions of the flash-plugin package, which are\n' +
'versioned similarly and cause collisions in detection.\n\n' +
'If you are certain you are running the Adobe released package of\n' +
'flash-plugin and are running a version of it equal or higher to the\n' +
'RedHat version listed above then you can consider this a false\n' +
'positive.\n';
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat() + flash_plugin_caveat
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "flash-plugin");
}
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
redhat | enterprise_linux | flash-plugin | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:flash-plugin |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 6 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11305
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-4871
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0081
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-11305
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-4871
helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-42.html
helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-01.html