Adobe Flash Player 'asfunction' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:26949

Info

Adobe Flash Player 'asfunction' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 26949
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2007-6244
CVE-2008-6062
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 18 2007 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 19 2015 09:42AM
Credit: Adobe credits Rich Cannings of the Google Security Team with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Turbolinux wizpy 0
Turbolinux FUJI 0
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1
SuSE openSUSE 10.3
Sun Solaris 10_x86
Sun Solaris 10_sparc
Sun OpenSolaris build snv_88
S.u.S.E. openSUSE 10.2
S.u.S.E. Novell Linux Desktop 9.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 10.1
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 10.1
RedHat Enterprise Linux Extras 4.6.z
RedHat Enterprise Linux Extras 4.5.z
RedHat Enterprise Linux Extras 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux Extras 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary 5 client
Nortel Networks Self-Service Peri Workstation 0
Nortel Networks Self-Service Peri Application 0
Nortel Networks Self-Service - CCSS7 0
Nortel Networks Media Processing Svr 1000 Rel 3.0
Gentoo Linux
Adobe Flash Player 9.0.48.0
Adobe Flash Player 9.0.47.0
Adobe Flash Player 9.0.45.0
Adobe Flash Player 9.0.31.0
Adobe Flash Player 9.0.28.0
Adobe Flash Player 8.0.34.0
Not Vulnerable: Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0

Discussion

Adobe Flash Player 'asfunction' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

Exploit / POC

Adobe Flash Player 'asfunction' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to follow a malicious URI.

The following proof-of-concept URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf?skinName=asfunction:getURL,javascript:alert(1)//
http://www.example.com/main.swf?baseurl=asfunction:getURL,javascript:alert(1)//

Solution / Fix

Adobe Flash Player 'asfunction' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released updates to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


Adobe Flash Player 9.0.28.0

Adobe Flash Player 9.0.31.0

Adobe Flash Player 8.0.34.0

Adobe Flash Player 9.0.45.0

Turbolinux FUJI 0

Adobe Flash Player 9.0.47.0

Adobe Flash Player 9.0.48.0

References

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