Adobe Flash Player prior 18.0.0.324 use after free

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player (Multimedia Player Software). It has been classified as critical. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use after free vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-416. Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.324 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.267 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.559 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.233, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.233, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.233 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8634, CVE-2015-8635, CVE-2015-8638, CVE-2015-8639, CVE-2015-8641, CVE-2015-8642, CVE-2015-8643, CVE-2015-8646, CVE-2015-8647, CVE-2015-8648, CVE-2015-8649, and CVE-2015-8650.

The weakness was published 12/28/2015 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2015-8640. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 87656 (Adobe AIR <= 20.0.0.204 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB16-01)), 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 168350 (OpenSuSE Security Update for flash-player (openSUSE-SU-2015:2400-1)).

Upgrading to version 18.0.0.324 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (87656), SecurityFocus (BID 79701†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-55414†). Similar entries are available at VDB-79926, VDB-79927, VDB-79930 and VDB-79931.

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Class: Use after free
CWE: CWE-416 / CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 87656
Nessus Name: Adobe AIR <= 20.0.0.204 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB16-01)
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OpenVAS ID: 803490
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Air Multiple Vulnerabilities -01 Dec15 (Windows)
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Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: RHSA-2015:2697
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2015-8640 (🔍)
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SecurityFocus: 79701
SecurityTracker: 1034544
Vulnerability Center: 55414 - [APSB16-01] Adobe Flash Player <20.0.0.267 Remote Code Execution - CVE-2015-8640, Critical

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Created: 12/29/2015 01:23 PM
Updated: 07/01/2022 06:42 PM
Changes: 12/29/2015 01:23 PM (39), 01/27/2018 12:39 PM (28), 07/01/2022 06:26 PM (4), 07/01/2022 06:34 PM (11), 07/01/2022 06:42 PM (1)
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