Security Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player May Allow Unauthorized System Access or Generation of HTTP Requests



Category :Security
Release Phase :Resolved
Product :Solaris 10 Operating System  
Bug Id :6555685  
Date of Resolved Release :11-DEC-2007 


Impact

Three security vulnerabilities in the Adobe Flash Player product shipped with Solaris 10 may allow remote users who create applications that are viewed with the Flash Player to perform unauthorized actions on the host. These actions may include executing arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the Flash Player, generation of unauthorized HTTP requests from the affected host, or, depending on the browser that is used with the Flash player, unauthorized access to information entered into the affected host via the logging of keystrokes.

These issues are described in the following documents:

  APSB07-12 at http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-12.html

  CVE-2007-3456 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3456

  CVE-2007-3457 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3457

  CVE-2007-2022 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2022

  CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-192A at http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-192A.html


Contributing Factors

These issues can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

x86 Platform

Notes:

  1. These issues can occur in Adobe Flash Player 7.x for Solaris.
  2. Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 are not affected by this issue.

The Adobe Flash Player shipped with Solaris is a Web Browser plugin, meaning that the Web Browser should be used to determine the version of the Flash Player in use. For example, when using the Mozilla Browser, visit the following URL:

about:plugins

and search for the Flash Player in the list of plugins.


Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described issues have been exploited.


Workaround

There is no workaround for this issue. Please see the Resolution section below.


Resolution

These issues are addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

x86 Platform

Note: The above listed patches will upgrade the Flash Player to version 9.0 r47.

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Sun Infodoc 91209.






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Article Details
Article ID : 201506
Article Type : Sun Alert
Last reviewed : 2007-12-11
Audience : PUBLIC
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