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 and obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. Type Confusion vulnerability in Adobe Flash player can be exploited locally via a specially designed document file to execute arbitrary code;
2. Integer Overflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash player can be exploited locally via a specially designed document file to obtain sensitive information;
3. Out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Adobe Flash player can be exploited locally via a specially designed document file to obtain sensitive information;
4. Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash player can be exploited locally via a specially designed document file 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

• APSB18-19

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

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-2018-4945
  critical
• CVE-2018-5000
  high
• CVE-2018-5001
  high
• CVE-2018-5002
  critical

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