Adobe · Flash Player
CVE-2014-0502
Adobe Flash Player Double Free Vulnerablity
What it is
Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.269 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.70 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.341 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1628 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1628, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1628 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2014.
CISA: Adobe Flash Player contains a double free vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
What to do
The impacted product is end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users should discontinue utilization of the product.
Deadline for US federal agencies: October 8, 2024
- Added to the CISA list
- September 17, 2024
- Published
- February 21, 2014
- Severity
- High 8.8 CVSS 3.1
- Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS)
- 25% in the top 2.1% of all known vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- More details
- NVD · CVE.org · CISA
All references (8)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00015.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-04.xml
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0196.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00014.html
- https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2014/04/building-decoder-for-cve-2014-0502.html
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.html
- http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2…
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% |
| 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% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Integer Overflow | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 21% |
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.