Adobe Flash Professional up to CS5 Flash.exe memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Adobe Flash Professional up to CS5. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Flash.exe. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2012-0778. In addition, an exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Adobe Flash Professional up to CS5 (Multimedia Player Software). This affects an unknown code of the component Flash.exe. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Professional before CS6 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was presented 05/08/2012 by Tielei Wang with Secunia as APSB12-12 as confirmed knowledge base article (Website). The advisory is shared at adobe.com. The public release was coordinated in cooperation with Adobe. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2012-0778 since 01/18/2012. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a private exploit is available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 59176 (Adobe Flash Professional <= 11.5.1.349 JPG Object Dimension Memory Allocation FLA File Handling Remote Overflow (APSB12-12)), 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.

Upgrading to version CS6 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 X-Force (75450), Tenable (59176), SecurityFocus (BID 53419†), OSVDB (81753†) and Secunia (SA47116†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
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Access: Private
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 59176
Nessus Name: Adobe Flash Professional <= 11.5.1.349 JPG Object Dimension Memory Allocation FLA File Handling Remote Overflow (APSB12-12)
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OpenVAS ID: 802785
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Flash Professional JPG Object Processing BOF Vulnerability (Mac OS X)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Flash Professional CS6

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: APSB12-12
Researcher: Tielei Wang
Organization: Secunia
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2012-0778 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-0778
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-5373
X-Force: 75450
SecurityFocus: 53419 - Adobe Flash Professional Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 47116 - Adobe Flash Professional JPG Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 81753
SecurityTracker: 1027045 - Adobe Flash Professional Buffer Overflow Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
Vulnerability Center: 35147 - [APSB12-12] Adobe Flash Professional Before CS6 Unspecified Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability, Critical

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 05/15/2012 10:41
Updated: 03/24/2021 14:07
Changes: 05/15/2012 10:41 (78), 04/12/2017 16:15 (12), 03/24/2021 14:07 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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