Adobe Flex Sdk up to 8.0.24.0 Flash Player memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Adobe Flex Sdk up to 8.0.24.0. This affects an unknown function of the component Flash Player. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2006-3311. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flex Sdk up to 8.0.24.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Flash Player. 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:

Buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player 8.0.24.0 and earlier, Flash Professional 8, Flash MX 2004, and Flex 1.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long, dynamically created string in a SWF movie.

The bug was discovered 09/12/2006. The weakness was disclosed 09/12/2006 by Stuart Pearson (ERRor) with Computer Terrorism (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-3311 since 06/29/2006. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22506 (GLSA-200610-02 : Adobe Flash Player: Arbitrary code execution), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165128 (SUSE Security Update for Flash Player (SUSE-SA:2006:053)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 4 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28886), Tenable (22506), SecurityFocus (BID 19980†), OSVDB (28732†) and Secunia (SA21865†). The entries VDB-2361, VDB-2524, VDB-2525 and VDB-2523 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 22506
Nessus Name: GLSA-200610-02 : Adobe Flash Player: Arbitrary code execution
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OpenVAS ID: 57354
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: linux-flashplugin
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Stuart Pearson (ERRor)
Organization: Computer Terrorism
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-3311 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3311
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-32227

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X-Force: 28886
SecurityFocus: 19980 - Adobe Flash Player Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 21865 - Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 28732 - Adobe Flash Player SWF dynamically created string buffer overflow
SecurityTracker: 1016829
Vulnerability Center: 12704 - [MS06-069] Adobe Flash Player and Flex User-Assisted Code Execution via SWF Movie, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-3577

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Created: 03/12/2015 15:51
Updated: 01/20/2025 23:41
Changes: 03/12/2015 15:51 (89), 06/25/2019 12:40 (5), 01/20/2025 23:41 (17)
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