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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3588

Original release date:07/13/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe (Macromedia) Flash Player 8.0.24.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a malformed, compressed .swf file, a different issue than CVE-2006-3587.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:2.6 (LOW) (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/16/2006)
Adobe gave a statement that these issues do not affect the Linux versions of Macromedia Flash Player.

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-318A
Name: TA06-318A
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-2702
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: macromedia-swf-dos(27602)
External Source: BID
Name: 19980
External Source: BID
Name: 18894
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0674
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3577
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3573
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.fortinet.com/FortiGuardCenter/advisory/FG-2006-21.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-11.html
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016829
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016449
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21901
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21865
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 28733
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:053
External Source: MS
Name: MS06-069
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4507
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3852
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200610-02
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22882
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22268
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22187
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22054
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2006-09-29
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:432
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:432
Type: Tool Signature

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