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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71240
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2435-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'gnash' package(s) announced via the DSA-2435-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'gnash' package(s) announced via the DSA-2435-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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, and the vulnerability 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, and the vulnerability 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.

Affected Software/OS:
'gnash' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-4337
42416
http://secunia.com/advisories/42416
45102
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45102
48466
http://secunia.com/advisories/48466
69533
http://www.osvdb.org/69533
DSA-2435
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2435
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605419
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-4328
48325
http://secunia.com/advisories/48325
50747
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50747
77243
http://www.osvdb.org/77243
[oss-security] 20111121 CVE Request (minor) -- gnash -- Unsafe management of HTTP cookies
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/7
[oss-security] 20111121 Re: CVE Request (minor) -- gnash -- Unsafe management of HTTP cookies
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/12
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649384
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnash.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=fa481c116e65ccf9137c7ddc8abc3cf05dc12f55
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755518
openSUSE-SU-2012:0330
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00003.html
openSUSE-SU-2012:0369
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00026.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-1175
47183
http://secunia.com/advisories/47183
52446
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52446
[oss-security] 20120314 CVE request: gnash integer overflow
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/5
[oss-security] 20120314 Re: CVE request: gnash integer overflow
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/6
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnash.git/commit/?id=bb4dc77eecb6ed1b967e3ecbce3dac6c5e6f1527
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803443
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