Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player

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:

1. An use-after-free vulnerability can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
2. A type-confusion vulnerability can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.

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Technical details

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

Original advisories

• APSB18-05

Related products

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

CVE list

• CVE-2018-4920
  critical
• CVE-2018-4919
  critical

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