Adobe Flash Player up to 25.0.0.148 Advanced Video Coding Engine memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Flash Player up to 25.0.0.148 and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component Advanced Video Coding Engine. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2017-3068. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Flash Player up to 25.0.0.148 (Multimedia Player Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Advanced Video Coding Engine. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Adobe Flash Player versions 25.0.0.148 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the Advanced Video Coding engine. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

The bug was discovered 05/09/2017. The weakness was disclosed 05/09/2017 by Natalie Silvanovich with Google Project Zero (Website). The advisory is shared at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-3068 since 12/02/2016. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by Google Security Research in SWF and been published 2 weeks after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at github.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 100052 (Adobe Flash Player <= 25.0.0.148 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-15)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 169974 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for flash-player (SUSE-SU-2017:1238-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (42017), Tenable (100052) and SecurityFocus (BID 98349†). The entries VDB-100958, VDB-100959, VDB-100960 and VDB-100961 are pretty similar. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 100052
Nessus Name: Adobe Flash Player <= 25.0.0.148 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-15)
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OpenVAS ID: 800035
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Flash Player Security Updates( apsb17-15 )-Windows
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Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: RHSA-2017:1219
Researcher: Natalie Silvanovich
Organization: Google Project Zero
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-3068 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-3068
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-100957

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SecurityFocus: 98349 - Adobe Flash Player APSB17-15 Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: - CVE-2017-3068 - Adobe - Flash Player - Memory Corruption Issue
SecurityTracker: 1038427

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 05/09/2017 23:01
Updated: 01/26/2025 12:29
Changes: 05/09/2017 23:01 (83), 09/30/2020 10:21 (9), 12/22/2020 14:44 (2), 12/06/2022 09:04 (3), 01/26/2025 12:29 (14)
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