Description
The Adobe Macromedia Flash 9 plug-in allows remote attackers to cause a victim machine to establish TCP sessions with arbitrary hosts via a Flash (SWF) movie, related to lack of pinning of a hostname to a single IP address after receiving an allow-access-from element in a cross-domain-policy XML document, and the availability of a Flash Socket class that does not use the browser's DNS pins, aka DNS rebinding attacks, a different issue than CVE-2002-1467 and CVE-2007-4324.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Red Hat
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL 5 | flash-plugin | 9.0.115.0-1.el5 | RHSA-2008:0221, RHSA-2007:1126 |
| RHEL 4 | flash-plugin | 9.0.115.0-1.el4 | RHSA-2008:0221, RHSA-2007:1126 |
| RHEL 3 | flash-plugin | 9.0.115.0-1.el3.with.oss | RHSA-2008:0221, RHSA-2007:1126 |
Advisories 2
- RHSA-2008:0221 Red Hat Security Advisory: flash-plugin security update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Jun 29, 2026
- RHSA-2007:1126 Red Hat Security Advisory: flash-plugin security update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Jun 29, 2026
References
- SUSE-SA:2007:069 vendor-advisory
- 29865 third-party-advisory
- 28157 third-party-advisory
- 30507 third-party-advisory
- http://crypto.stanford.edu/dns/dns-rebinding.pdf
- 28570 third-party-advisory
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-11.html
- ADV-2008-1724 vdb-entry
- TA07-355A third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9250 vdb-entry signature
- GLSA-200801-07 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2008:0221 vendor-advisory
- TA08-150A third-party-advisory
- 30430 third-party-advisory
- APPLE-SA-2008-05-28 vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2008:022 vendor-advisory
- 28161 third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2007:1126 vendor-advisory
- 29763 third-party-advisory
- 238305 vendor-advisory
- 26930 vdb-entry
- ADV-2007-4258 vdb-entry
- 1019116 vdb-entry
- GLSA-200804-21 vendor-advisory
- ADV-2008-1697 vdb-entry
- TA08-100A third-party-advisory
- 28213 third-party-advisory
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-20.html