Vulnerability Note VU#110297

Flash Player information disclosure vulnerability

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

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

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.

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