Adobe Flash Player prior 11.2.202.521/18.0.0.240/19.0.0.185 memory corruption
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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player (Multimedia Player Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.241 and 19.x before 19.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.521 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 19.0.0.190, Adobe AIR SDK before 19.0.0.190, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 19.0.0.190 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5567.
The weakness was disclosed 09/22/2015 by Mateusz Jurczyk (bilou) with Google Project Zero (Website). The advisory is available at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-5579 since 07/17/2015. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 86059 (Adobe AIR <= 18.0.0.199 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-23)), 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 168080 (OpenSuSE Security Update for flash-player (openSUSE-SU-2015:1616-1)).
Upgrading to version 11.2.202.521, 18.0.0.240 or 19.0.0.185 eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (86059). The entries 77991, 77992, 77993 and 77994 are pretty similar.
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Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 86059
Nessus Name: Adobe AIR <= 18.0.0.199 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-23)
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OpenVAS ID: 803024
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities Sep15 (Windows)
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Upgrade: Flash Player 11.2.202.521/18.0.0.240/19.0.0.185
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Timeline
07/17/2015 🔍09/21/2015 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: adobe.comAdvisory: RHSA-2015:1814
Researcher: Mateusz Jurczyk (bilou)
Organization: Google Project Zero
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2015-5579 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1033629
Vulnerability Center: 52849 - [APSB15-23] Adobe Flash Player, AIR, AIR SDK and AIR SDK and Compiler Remote Code Execution - CVE-2015-5579, Critical
SecurityFocus: 76800 - Adobe Flash Player and AIR APSB15-23 Multiple Unspecified Stack Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
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Entry
Created: 09/23/2015 19:23Updated: 06/18/2022 17:22
Changes: 09/23/2015 19:23 (66), 01/27/2018 12:39 (10), 06/18/2022 17:15 (3), 06/18/2022 17:22 (1)
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