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Vulnerability Note VU#110297

Flash Player information disclosure vulnerability

Overview

The Adobe Flash player contains an information disclosure vulnerability that affects the Konqueror and Opera web browsers.

I. Description

Konqueror is the default web browser for the KDE desktop. Opera is a web browser that is available for Windows, Linux and BSD systems.

The Adobe Flash Player contains an information disclosure vulnerability. When using Konqueror or Opera with the Flash player plugin, keystrokes may be sent to the Flash Player applet instead of the web browser.

Note that only the Linux and BSD versions of the Opera browser are affected by this vulnerability.

II. Impact

An attacker may be able to capture private or sensitive information.

III. Solution

Update

Adobe has released an update to address this issue. See Adobe Security Bulletin APSB07-12 for more details. Users who get Adobe Flash from their operating system vendor should see the systems affected section of this document.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
AdobeVulnerable12-Jul-2007
Apple Computer, Inc.Unknown11-Jul-2007
Microsoft CorporationNot Vulnerable12-Jul-2007

References


http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-12.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24877/
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/858/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23437
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017903
http://secunia.com/advisories/25662/
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0494.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/26027/

Credit

Thanks to Adobe for information that was used in this report. Adobe credits Mark Hills for reporting this issue.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

Date Public:2007-04-12
Date First Published:2007-07-12
Date Last Updated:2007-07-16
CERT Advisory: 
CVE-ID(s):CVE-2007-2022
NVD-ID(s):CVE-2007-2022
US-CERT Technical Alerts: 
Metric:0.64
Document Revision:20

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