KLA10936
Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player

Updated: 09/26/2023
Detect date
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01/10/2017
Severity
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Critical
Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions, obtain sensitive information or execute arbitrary code.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

  1. Vulnerability related to handling TCP connections can be exploited remotely to bypass security restrictions;
  2. Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the ActionScript MovieClip and FileReference classes (when using class inheritance) can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
  3. Heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities occuring while processing Adobe Texture Format files or Flash Video container file format can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
  4. Heap buffer overflow vulnerability related to texture compression can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
  5. Memory corruption vulnerability in the JPEG XR codec can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
  6. Memory corruption vulnerabilities related to processing of atoms of MP4 files, setting visual mode effects and parsing metadata can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
  7. Memory corruption vulnerability occuring while manipulating a display list because of a concurrency error can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.

Technical details

To update Adobe Flash Player ActiveX (detected as Flash.ocx) on Windows 8 and higher, install latest updates from Control Panel

Affected products

Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier
Adobe Flash Player for Google Chrome 24.0.0.186 and earlier

Solution

Update to the latest versions
Adobe Flash Player Distribution
Adobe Flash Player Download Center
Google Chrome Releases

Original advisories

Adobe Security Bulletin

Impacts
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ACE 
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OSI 
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DoS 
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SB 
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Related products
Adobe Flash Player ActiveX
Adobe Flash Player NPAPI
Macromedia Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player PPAPI
CVE-IDS
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CVE-2017-29259.3Critical
CVE-2017-29269.3Critical
CVE-2017-29279.3Critical
CVE-2017-29289.3Critical
CVE-2017-29309.3Critical
CVE-2017-29319.3Critical
CVE-2017-29329.3Critical
CVE-2017-29339.3Critical
CVE-2017-29349.3Critical
CVE-2017-29359.3Critical
CVE-2017-29369.3Critical
CVE-2017-29379.3Critical
CVE-2017-29384.3Warning
Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

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