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Secunia Advisory SA29915

swfdec Untrusted Sandboxes Local File Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA29915
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2008-04-21
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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Software:
swfdec 0.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-1834 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in swfdec, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to swfdec not properly restricting untrusted sandboxes from reading local files, which can be exploited to disclose the content of arbitrary local files by e.g. tricking a user into visiting a malicious website.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.6.4.


Solution
Update to version 0.6.4.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/swfdec/2008-April/001321.html

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