Description
Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code.
Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:
- A type confusion vulnerability related to the MessageChannel class can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
- An integer overflow vulnerability related to Flash Broker COM can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
- Use-after-free vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
- Heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
- Memory corruption vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.
Technical details
Vulnerabilities (3) occur in a routine related to player shutdown, in the ActionScript 3 BitmapData class, in Primetime SDK event dispatch or might be related to event handlers.
Vulnerabilities (4) occur in the h264 decoder routine, in the Flash Video (FLV) codec and while parsing an MP4 header.
Vulnerabilities (5) occur while performing garbage collection, in the h264 codec (related to decompression) and in Primetime SDK.
To update Adobe Flash Player ActiveX (detected as Flash.ocx) on Windows 8 and higher, install latest updates from Control Panel
Original advisories
Exploitation
Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.
Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.
Related products
CVE list
- CVE-2017-2982 critical
- CVE-2017-2984 critical
- CVE-2017-2985 critical
- CVE-2017-2986 critical
- CVE-2017-2987 critical
- CVE-2017-2988 critical
- CVE-2017-2990 critical
- CVE-2017-2991 critical
- CVE-2017-2992 critical
- CVE-2017-2993 critical
- CVE-2017-2994 critical
- CVE-2017-2995 critical
- CVE-2017-2996 critical
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