Adobe Flash Player MPEG4 Data memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player. It has been declared as critical. This impacts an unknown function of the component MPEG4 Data Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to memory corruption. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2015-8658. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player (Multimedia Player Software) (version now known). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component MPEG4 Data Handler. 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. CVE summarizes:

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.268 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.228 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.554 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.204, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.204, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.204 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and memory corruption) via crafted MPEG-4 data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8045, CVE-2015-8047, CVE-2015-8060, CVE-2015-8408, CVE-2015-8416, CVE-2015-8417, CVE-2015-8418, CVE-2015-8419, CVE-2015-8443, CVE-2015-8444, CVE-2015-8451, CVE-2015-8455, CVE-2015-8652, CVE-2015-8654, CVE-2015-8656, CVE-2015-8657, and CVE-2015-8820.

The weakness was presented 03/04/2016 (Website). The advisory is available at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2015-8658. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 87243 (Adobe AIR <= 19.0.0.241 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-32)), 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 100278 (Microsoft Windows Update for Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer (MS16-036 and KB3144756)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (87243), SecurityFocus (BID 84160†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-57215†). See VDB-79654, VDB-79655, VDB-79656 and VDB-79657 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 87243
Nessus Name: Adobe AIR <= 19.0.0.241 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-32)
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OpenVAS ID: 803456
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Air Multiple Vulnerabilities Dec15 (Windows)
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12/23/2015 🔍
03/04/2016 +72 days 🔍
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03/10/2016 +4 days 🔍
03/11/2016 +1 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: helpx.adobe.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2015-8658 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-8658
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-81178
SecurityFocus: 84160
Vulnerability Center: 57215 - [APSB15-32] Adobe Flash Player, AIR, AIR SDK and AIR SDK and Compiler Remote Code Execution - CVE-2015-8658, Critical

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Created: 03/06/2016 19:08
Updated: 07/09/2022 09:31
Changes: 03/06/2016 19:08 (39), 01/27/2018 12:39 (27), 07/09/2022 09:23 (2), 07/09/2022 09:28 (11), 07/09/2022 09:31 (2)
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