CVE-2008-3873

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-08-18
Bugzilla:
465736: CVE-2008-3873 flash: clipboard hijack attack

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-3873 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (flash-plugin) RHSA-2008:0980 2008-11-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras (flash-plugin) RHSA-2008:0980 2008-11-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (flash-plugin) RHSA-2008:0945 2008-10-28

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