news 28 Posted March 19, 2012 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2435-1 security ( -at -) debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Gabriele Giacone March 19, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : gnash Vulnerability : several Problem type : local / local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2010-4337 CVE-2011-4328 CVE-2012-1175 Debian Bug : 605419 649384 664023 Several vulnerabilities have been identified in Gnash, the GNU Flash player. CVE-2012-1175 Tielei Wang from Georgia Tech Information Security Center discovered a vulnerability in GNU Gnash which is caused due to an integer overflow error and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted SWF file. CVE-2011-4328 Alexander Kurtz discovered an unsafe management of HTTP cookies. Cookie files are stored under /tmp and have predictable names, vulnerability that allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files the users has write permissions for, and are also world-readable which may cause information leak. CVE-2010-4337 Jakub Wilk discovered an unsafe management of temporary files during the build process. Files are stored under /tmp and have predictable names, vulnerability that allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files the users has write permissions for. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.8-5+squeeze1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.10-5. We recommend that you upgrade your gnash packages. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: http://www.debian.org/security/ Share this post Link to post
