CVE-2008-3873 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3873
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Description: The System.setClipboard method in ActionScript in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to populate the clipboard with a URL that is difficult to delete and does not require user interaction to populate the clipboard, as exploited in the wild in August 2008.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44584 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-248586-1 ST 1020724 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA33390 Secunia Advisory: SA32759 Secunia Advisory: SA32702 Secunia Advisory: SA34226 Secunia Advisory: SA32448 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0980.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0945.html MISC http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1759 http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1733 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-23.xml CONFIRM http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&DocumentOID=834256&poid= http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-020.htm http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-440.htm http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-18.html http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes.html http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/08/clipboard_attack.html BID 31117

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