Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting flashplugin-nonfree package, versions <9.0.31.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.22% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-FLASHPLUGINNONFREE-432093
  • published17 Oct 2006
  • disclosed17 Oct 2006

Introduced: 17 Oct 2006

CVE-2006-5330  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 flashplugin-nonfree to version 9.0.31.0.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream flashplugin-nonfree package and not the flashplugin-nonfree package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

CRLF injection vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player plugin 9.0.16 and earlier for Windows, 7.0.63 and earlier for Linux, 7.x before 7.0 r67 for Solaris, and before 9.0.28.0 for Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to modify HTTP headers of client requests and conduct HTTP Request Splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in arguments to the ActionScript functions (1) XML.addRequestHeader and (2) XML.contentType. NOTE: the flexibility of the attack varies depending on the type of web browser being used.

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