Bug 755518 (CVE-2011-4328)

Summary:	CVE-2011-4328 gnash: Unsafe management of HTTP cookies
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	denis.arnaud_fedora, hicham.haouari, jreznik
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-21 11:32:43 UTC

A security flaw was found in the way Shockwave Flash plug-in of the gnash, a GNU flash movie player, performed management of HTTP cookies (they were stored under /tmp directory with world-readable permissions). A local attacker could use this flaw to obtain sensitive information.

References:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649384

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-21 11:34:18 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the gnash package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14, 15, and 16. Please schedule an update (once final upstream patch known).

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-21 11:35:21 UTC

Created gnash tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 755520]

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-21 11:38:38 UTC

CVE request:
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/7

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-21 17:23:58 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2011-4328 has been assigned to this issue:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/12

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-03-06 20:37:26 UTC

gnash-0.8.10-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-03-08 21:25:23 UTC

gnash-0.8.10-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-03-08 21:26:18 UTC

gnash-0.8.10-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.