Adobe · Flash Player
CVE-2014-8439
Adobe Flash Player Dereferenced Pointer Vulnerability
What it is
Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.258 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.239 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.424 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.293, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.302, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.302 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.
CISA: Adobe Flash Player has a vulnerability in the way it handles a dereferenced memory pointer which could lead to code execution.
What to do
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
Deadline for US federal agencies: June 15, 2022
- Added to the CISA list
- May 25, 2022
- Published
- November 25, 2014
- Severity
- High 8.8 CVSS 3.1
- Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS)
- 20% in the top 2.5% of all known vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- More details
- NVD · CVE.org · CISA
All references (11)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00020.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1915.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98932
- https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002768.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031259
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71289
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60217
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-22.html
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-26.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.