Bug 755518 (CVE-2011-4328) - CVE-2011-4328 gnash: Unsafe management of HTTP cookies
Summary: CVE-2011-4328 gnash: Unsafe management of HTTP cookies
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-4328
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 755520
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-21 11:32 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-08-22 14:51:07 UTC
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Debian BTS 649384 0 None None None Never

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.
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