CVE-2015-5544: Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.232 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.508 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 18.0.0.199, Adobe AIR SDK before 18.0.0.199, and…

PriorityP265critical10CVSS 2.0

AVNACLAuNCCICAC

EXPLOIT

EPSS

38.17%

98.4th percentile

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.232 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.508 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 18.0.0.199, Adobe AIR SDK before 18.0.0.199, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 18.0.0.199 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5545, CVE-2015-5546, CVE-2015-5547, CVE-2015-5548, CVE-2015-5549, CVE-2015-5552, and CVE-2015-5553.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	air	<= 18.0.0.180	—
adobe	air_sdk	<= 18.0.0.180	—
adobe	air_sdk_compiler	<= 18.0.0.180	—
adobe	flash_player	<= 11.2.202.491	—
adobe	flash_player	<= 18.0.0.209	—

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

filenamesignal_sigsegv_7ffff5b5aee2_252_0688bbd450e7c095265d00be2fca50ab.swf↗

hash0688bbd450e7c095265d00be2fca50ab↗

urlhttps://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/37866.zip↗

→Look for malformed SWF files triggering a SIGSEGV crash in Adobe Flash's drawing/bitmap handling code path, specifically at instruction 'cmpl $0xc,0x174(%rax)' with a corrupted RAX register value indicative of heap corruption. ↗
→The vulnerability manifests as a bad write via a compromised RDI register in Flash's bitmap/drawing handler; monitor for Flash process crashes with write faults in libflashplayer on 64-bit Linux. ↗
→CVE-2015-5544 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.232 (Windows/OS X) and before 11.2.202.508 (Linux); flag any Flash Player process running versions below these thresholds. ↗

·The NVD source URL references CVE-2015-5547, not CVE-2015-5544 directly; CVE-2015-5544 is listed as a related sibling vulnerability sharing the same affected version ranges and vulnerability class (memory corruption via unspecified vectors). ↗
·The crash is described as manifesting 'in various different ways under fuzzing', meaning the specific trigger SWF may not be the only exploitation vector; detection based solely on the named SWF file hash may miss other variants. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.010.0CRITICALAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv10.0CRITICAL

vendor_redhat10.0CRITICAL

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