Adobe Flash Player up to 11.5.502.110 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player up to 11.5.502.110. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Flash Player. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2012-5678. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player up to 11.5.502.110 (Multimedia Player Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block 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:

Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.48 and 11.x before 11.5.502.135 on Windows, before 10.3.183.48 and 11.x before 11.5.502.136 on Mac OS X, before 10.3.183.48 and 11.x before 11.2.202.258 on Linux, before 11.1.111.29 on Android 2.x and 3.x, and before 11.1.115.34 on Android 4.x; Adobe AIR before 3.5.0.880 on Windows and before 3.5.0.890 on Mac OS X; and Adobe AIR SDK before 3.5.0.880 on Windows and before 3.5.0.890 on Mac OS X allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was disclosed 12/11/2012 by Travis Ormandy with Google Security Team as apsb12-27 as confirmed bulletin (Website). The advisory is shared at adobe.com. The public release has been coordinated in cooperation with Adobe. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2012-5678 since 10/29/2012. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 63241 (Adobe AIR 3.x <= 3.5.0.600 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB12-27)), 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 166210 (SUSE Security Update for flash-player (openSUSE-SU-2013:0368-1)).

Upgrading to version 11.5.502.135 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 (80615), Tenable (63241), SecurityFocus (BID 56898†), OSVDB (88356†) and Secunia (SA51526†). Additional details are provided at technet.microsoft.com. The entries VDB-6601, VDB-6595, VDB-6614 and VDB-6606 are pretty similar. 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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Nessus ID: 63241
Nessus Name: Adobe AIR 3.x <= 3.5.0.600 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB12-27)
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OpenVAS ID: 803455
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Air Multiple Vulnerabilities - December12 (Mac OS X)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Flash Player 11.5.502.135

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Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: apsb12-27
Researcher: Travis Ormandy
Organization: Google Security Team
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CVE: CVE-2012-5678 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-5678
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-7117

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X-Force: 80615, High Risk
SecurityFocus: 56898
Secunia: 51526 - Red Hat update for flash-plugin, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 88356
SecurityTracker: 1027854

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Entryinfo

Created: 12/13/2012 10:52
Updated: 04/16/2018 11:54
Changes: 12/13/2012 10:52 (81), 04/16/2018 11:54 (6)
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Committer: olku
Cache ID: 216::103

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