Adobe · Flash Player
CVE-2015-5119
Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability
What it is
Use-after-free vulnerability in the ByteArray class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and 11.x through 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that overrides a valueOf function, as exploited in the wild in July 2015.
CISA: A use-after-free vulnerability exists within the ActionScript 3 ByteArray class in Adobe Flash Player that allows an attacker to perform remote 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: March 24, 2022
- Added to the CISA list
- March 3, 2022
- Published
- July 8, 2015
- Severity
- High 7.8 CVSS 3.1
- Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS)
- 99% in the top 0.1% of all known vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- More details
- NVD · CVE.org · CISA
All references (16)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00017.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1214.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00018.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-13
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00016.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032809
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75568
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA15-195A
- http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_hacking_team_uaf
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-03.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/561288
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-16.html
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132600/Adobe-Flash-Player-ByteArray-Use-After-Free.html
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/unpatched-flash-player-flaws-more-pocs-found-in-ha…
- http://twitter.com/w3bd3vil/statuses/618168863708962816
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.