Adobe Flash Player memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Adobe Flash Player. This impacts an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2016-1024. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Flash Player (Multimedia Player Software) (affected version not known) and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.343 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.213 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.616 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1012, CVE-2016-1020, CVE-2016-1021, CVE-2016-1022, CVE-2016-1023, CVE-2016-1025, CVE-2016-1026, CVE-2016-1027, CVE-2016-1028, CVE-2016-1029, CVE-2016-1032, and CVE-2016-1033.

The weakness was published 04/09/2016 by bo13oy with Tencent PC Manager (Website). The advisory is shared for download at lists.opensuse.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-1024 since 12/22/2015. 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 current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/13/2022). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product decreasing in the near future.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 100637 (Amazon Linux AMI : jasper (ALAS-2017-836)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 168848 (OpenSuSE Security Update for flash-player (openSUSE-SU-2016:1306-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 years after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (100637), SecurityFocus (BID 85932†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-58015†). Similar entries are available at VDB-81608, VDB-81847, VDB-81848 and VDB-81849. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 100637
Nessus Name: Amazon Linux AMI : jasper (ALAS-2017-836)
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OpenVAS ID: 800035
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Flash Player Security Updates( apsb16-10 )-Windows
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Recommended: Upgrade
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04/07/2016 +107 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: RHSA-2017:1208
Researcher: bo13oy
Organization: Tencent PC Manager
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CVE: CVE-2016-1024 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-1024
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-81860
SecurityFocus: 85932 - Adobe Flash Player APSB16-10 Multiple Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1035509
Vulnerability Center: 58015 - [APSB16-10] Adobe Flash Player and Flash Player ESR Remote Code Execution - CVE-2016-1024, Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/09/2016 15:27
Updated: 07/13/2022 07:40
Changes: 04/09/2016 15:27 (70), 02/04/2019 09:37 (15), 07/13/2022 07:34 (4), 07/13/2022 07:40 (1)
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Cache ID: 216:72D:103

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