Adobe Flash Player prior 11.2.202.521/18.0.0.240/19.0.0.185 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-5578. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player (Multimedia Player Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. 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 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 or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5575, CVE-2015-5577, CVE-2015-5580, CVE-2015-5582, CVE-2015-5588, and CVE-2015-6677.

The weakness was released 09/22/2015 by Mateusz Jurczyk (instruder) with Google Project Zero (Website). The advisory is shared at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-5578 since 07/17/2015. 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 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (86059), SecurityFocus (BID 76799†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-52872†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-77991, VDB-77992, VDB-77993 and VDB-77994. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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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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07/17/2015 🔍
09/21/2015 +66 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: RHSA-2015:1814
Researcher: Mateusz Jurczyk (instruder)
Organization: Google Project Zero
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2015-5578 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-5578
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-78001
SecurityFocus: 76799 - Adobe Flash Player and AIR APSB15-23 Multiple Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1033629
Vulnerability Center: 52872 - [APSB15-23] Adobe Flash Player, AIR, AIR SDK and AIR SDK and Compiler Remote Code Execution - CVE-2015-5578, Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 09/23/2015 19:23
Updated: 06/18/2022 17:08
Changes: 09/23/2015 19:23 (60), 01/27/2018 12:39 (16), 06/18/2022 17:00 (3), 06/18/2022 17:08 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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