Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player

Description

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

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. A buffer overflow/underflow vulnerability in the Primetime TVSDK can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
2. Memory corruption vulnerabilities in the Primetime TVSDK API can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
3. A vulnerability in the random number generator, which is used from constant binding, can be exploited remotely to obtain sensitive information;
4. Use-after free vulnerabilities in the ActionScript can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;

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Technical details

The SDK mentioned in vulnerability (1) description supports customizing ad information.

Vulnerabilities (2) occur in the Primetime TVSDK API functionalities related to timeline interactions and hosting playback surface.

Vulnerabilities (4) are related to garbage collection in ActionScript 2 VM, ActionScript 2 TextField object variable property and an interaction between the privacy user interface and the ActionScript 2 Camera object.
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Original advisories

• Adobe Security Bulletin

Exploitation

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

Related products

• Adobe-Flash-Player-ActiveX
• Adobe-Flash-Player-NPAPI
• Adobe-Flash-Player-PPAPI

CVE list

• CVE-2017-3003
  critical
• CVE-2017-3002
  critical
• CVE-2017-3001
  critical
• CVE-2017-3000
  warning
• CVE-2017-2999
  critical
• CVE-2017-2998
  critical
• CVE-2017-2997
  critical

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