Adobe Flash Player prior 9.0.124.0 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Adobe Flash Player. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2010-2166. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Flash Player (Multimedia Player Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. 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 before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2160, CVE-2010-2165, CVE-2010-2171, CVE-2010-2175, CVE-2010-2176, CVE-2010-2177, CVE-2010-2178, CVE-2010-2180, CVE-2010-2182, CVE-2010-2184, CVE-2010-2187, and CVE-2010-2188.

The weakness was published 06/15/2010 by Bing Liu with Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2010-2166 since 06/07/2010. 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 46858 (Adobe AIR < 2.0.2.12610 Multiple Vulnerabilities (ASPB10-14)), 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 165220 (SUSE Security Update for Flash Player (SUSE-SA:2010:024)).

Upgrading to version 9.0.124.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 9397.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (46858), SecurityFocus (BID 40783†), Secunia (SA40144†), SecurityTracker (ID 1024085†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-26111†). Similar entries are available at VDB-44472, VDB-53657, VDB-53656 and VDB-53655. 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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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 46858
Nessus Name: Adobe AIR < 2.0.2.12610 Multiple Vulnerabilities (ASPB10-14)
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OpenVAS ID: 67656
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: linux-flashplugin
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Flash Player 9.0.124.0
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03/19/2015 +1731 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: RHSA-2010:0464
Researcher: Bing Liu
Organization: Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2010-2166 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-2166
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-53635

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SecurityFocus: 40783 - Adobe Flash Player and AIR (CVE-2010-2166) Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 40144 - Adobe AIR Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
SecurityTracker: 1024085
Vulnerability Center: 26111 - [APSB10-14] Adobe Flash Player and AIR Unspecified Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2010-1453

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/19/2015 12:22
Updated: 09/15/2021 19:19
Changes: 03/19/2015 12:22 (64), 02/28/2017 07:46 (18), 09/15/2021 19:11 (2), 09/15/2021 19:19 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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