Adobe · Flash Player
CVE-2011-0611
Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
What it is
Adobe Flash Player before 10.2.154.27 on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris and 10.2.156.12 and earlier on Android; Adobe AIR before 2.6.19140; and Authplay.dll (aka AuthPlayLib.bundle) in Adobe Reader 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x through 10.0.1 on Windows, Adobe Reader 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x before 10.0.3 on Mac OS X, and Adobe Acrobat 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x before 10.0.3 on Windows and Mac OS X allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted Flash content; as demonstrated by a Microsoft Office document with an embedded .swf file that has a size inconsistency in a "group of included constants," object type confusion, ActionScript that adds custom functions to prototypes, and Date objects; and as exploited in the wild in April 2011.
CISA: Adobe Flash Player contains a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted Flash content.
What to do
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
Deadline for US federal agencies: March 24, 2022
- Added to the CISA list
- March 3, 2022
- Published
- April 13, 2011
- Severity
- High 8.8 CVSS 3.1
- Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS)
- 99.4% in the top 0.1% of all known vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-843
- More details
- NVD · CVE.org · CISA
All references (20)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0451.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00004.html
- http://bugix-security.blogspot.com/2011/04/cve-2011-0611-adobe-flash-zero-day.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14175
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47314
- http://secunia.com/blog/210/
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8204
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0922
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-07.html
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8292
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44149
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44141
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66681
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0924
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025325
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17175
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/04/12/analysis-of-the-cve-2011-0611-adobe-flash-player-vulnerabi…
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44119
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/230057
- http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2011/04/apr-8-cve-2011-0611-flash-player-zero.html
More exploited flaws from Adobe
| Added | Vulnerability | Product | Severity | Attack chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2024 | Incorrect Default Permissions | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 11% |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Code Execution | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 11% |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Integer Underflow Vulnerablity | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 99.9% |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Double Free Vulnerablity | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 25% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Memory Corruption | Flash Player | High 7.8 | 83% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Unspecified | Flash Player | High 7.8 | 64% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Memory Corruption | Flash Player | High 7.8 | 91% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) | Flash Player | Medium 6.1 | 6.2% |
Sources: Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (CISA, public domain), CVE records (cve.org) and EPSS (FIRST). The chance of attacks is the EPSS estimate that someone will try to exploit the flaw in the next 30 days.