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Adobe Flash Player CRLF Injection Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA22467  
Release Date: 2006-10-19
Last Update: 2006-11-15

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Adobe Flash Player 9.x
Macromedia Flash Player 7.x
Macromedia Flash Player 8.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-5330 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Rapid7 has reported some vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain restrictions.

Input passed to the "XML.addRequestHeader()" ActionScript function and the "XML.contentType" attribute is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to bypass certain restrictions via CRLF character sequences and inject arbitrary HTTP headers in a request.

Successful exploitation may e.g. make it easier to perform CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 9.0.16 for Windows and 7.0.63 for Linux. According to the vendor, all current versions from 7.x through 9.x are affected.

Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, using the Network Software Inspector.

Solution:
Update to version 9.0.28.0.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Marc Bevand, Rapid7.

Changelog:
2006-11-15: Updated "Solution" and "Solution Status" section to reflect vendor patch. Updated link to Adobe advisory.

Original Advisory:
Adobe Systems:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-18.html

Rapid7:
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0026.jsp



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9 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. REVOKED: Adobe Flash Player Unspecified Vulnerability
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3. Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
4. Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
5. Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
6. Flash Player Unspecified Vulnerability and "addRequestHeader()" Bypass
7. Flash Player Unspecified Code Execution Vulnerabilities
8. Macromedia Flash Player SWF File Handling Arbitrary Code Execution
9. Macromedia Flash Player Predictable Data Location Weakness


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