Adobe Flash Player up to 13.0.0.x/18.0.0.x memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player up to 13.0.0.x/18.0.0.x (Multimedia Player Software). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.302 and 14.x through 18.x before 18.0.0.203 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.481 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 18.0.0.180, Adobe AIR SDK before 18.0.0.180, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 18.0.0.180 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3117, CVE-2015-3123, CVE-2015-3130, CVE-2015-3133, CVE-2015-3134, and CVE-2015-4431.

The weakness was presented 07/20/2015 by Kai Kang with Tencent (Website). The advisory is shared for download at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2015-5124 since 06/26/2015. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 84641 (Adobe AIR <= 18.0.0.144 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-16)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 168130 (OpenSuSE Security Update for flash-player (openSUSE-SU-2015:1781-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 20442.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (84641). Additional details are provided at helpx.adobe.com. See 75806, 76340, 76351 and 76353 for similar entries.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Nessus ID: 84641
Nessus Name: Adobe AIR <= 18.0.0.144 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-16)
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OpenVAS ID: 52298
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities -01 Aug15 (Mac OS X)
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Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: RHSA-2015:1214
Researcher: Kai Kang
Organization: Tencent
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CVE: CVE-2015-5124 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1032810
Vulnerability Center: 51489 - [APSB15-16] Adobe Flash Player, AIR, AIR SDK and AIR SDK and Compiler Remote Code Execution and DoS - CVE-2015-5124, Critical
SecurityFocus: 75959 - Adobe Flash Player and AIR CVE-2015-5124 Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Created: 07/22/2015 11:11
Updated: 06/03/2022 14:17
Changes: 07/22/2015 11:11 (56), 01/27/2018 12:39 (19), 06/03/2022 14:14 (3), 06/03/2022 14:17 (1)
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