Adobe Flash Player prior 11.2.202.521/18.0.0.240/19.0.0.185 type confusion

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Adobe Flash Player. The affected element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to type confusion. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2015-5573. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Adobe Flash Player (Multimedia Player Software). Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a type confusion vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-843. The product allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.241 and 19.x before 19.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.521 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 19.0.0.190, Adobe AIR SDK before 19.0.0.190, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 19.0.0.190 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion."

The weakness was released 09/22/2015 by instruder with Intel (Website). The advisory is shared for download at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-5573 since 07/17/2015. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 86059 (Adobe AIR <= 18.0.0.199 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-23)), 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 168080 (OpenSuSE Security Update for flash-player (openSUSE-SU-2015:1616-1)).

Upgrading to version 11.2.202.521, 18.0.0.240 or 19.0.0.185 eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 21035.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (86059), SecurityFocus (BID 76794†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-52848†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-77991, VDB-77992, VDB-77993 and VDB-77994. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Type confusion
CWE: CWE-843
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Nessus ID: 86059
Nessus Name: Adobe AIR <= 18.0.0.199 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-23)
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OpenVAS ID: 803024
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities Sep15 (Windows)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Flash Player 11.2.202.521/18.0.0.240/19.0.0.185
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: RHSA-2015:1814
Researcher: instruder
Organization: Intel
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2015-5573 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-5573
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-77996
SecurityFocus: 76794 - Adobe Flash Player and AIR CVE-2015-5573 Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1033629
Vulnerability Center: 52848 - [APSB15-23] Adobe Flash Player, AIR, AIR SDK and AIR SDK and Compiler Remote Code Execution - CVE-2015-5573, Critical

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Created: 09/23/2015 19:22
Updated: 06/18/2022 15:54
Changes: 09/23/2015 19:22 (65), 01/27/2018 12:39 (11), 06/18/2022 15:47 (3), 06/18/2022 15:54 (1)
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