Bug 740201 (CVE-2011-2444)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2444 acroread, flash-plugin: Cross-site scripting vulnerability fixed in APSB11-26
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jlieskov, security-response-team, stransky, vdanen
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	737587, 737588, 737589, 740208, 740210
Bug Blocks:	740205, 751852

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-21 09:43:36 UTC

Adobe will release update for flash-plugin on 21st Sept 2011
http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2011/09/prenotification-security-update-for-flash-player.html

This bug is used for:
"important universal cross-site scripting issue that is reportedly being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks."

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2011-09-21 20:40:06 UTC

APSB11-26 [1] resolves the following flaw:

This update resolves a universal cross-site scripting issue that could be used to take actions on a user's behalf on any website or webmail provider if the user visits a malicious website (CVE-2011-2444).

Note: There are reports that this issue is being exploited in the wild in active targeted attacks designed to trick the user into clicking on a malicious link delivered in an email message.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-26.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2011-09-22 16:54:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:1333 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1333.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-11-08 11:14:14 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Extras for RHEL 4
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:1434 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1434.html