National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2189
Original release date:06/15/2010
Last revised:02/02/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610, when used in conjunction with VMWare Tools on a VMWare platform, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Description
Per:http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html
'This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-2189).
Note: This issue occurs only on VMWare systems with VMWare Tools enabled.'
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA10-162A
Name: TA10-162A
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: adobe-fpair-vmware-code-execution(59338)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0192
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1793
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1522
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1482
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1434
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1421
External Source: TURBO
Name: TLSA-2010-19
External Source: BID
Name: 40799
External Source: BID
Name: 40759
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1024086
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1024085
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-201101-09
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 43026
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 40545
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 40144
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6991
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2010:013
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2010:024
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2010-11-10-1
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBMA02547
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBMA02547
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6991
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5