CVE-2015-5545

published 2015-08-14

CVE-2015-5545: 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…

Priority P2 65 critical 10 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C C I C A C

EXPLOIT

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-2015-5544, 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 & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

filename signal_sigsegv_7ffff5ce5ea4_6963_b1d6342468487426c7ea26c725453e7d.swf↗

filename b1d6342468487426c7ea26c725453e7d.swf↗

url https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/37867.zip↗

• → Crash triggered in Adobe Flash on Linux x64 via a mutated SWF file; look for SIGSEGV at instruction 'andl $0xffffffbf,0x3c(%rax)' with rax containing wild/uninitialized pointer value (e.g. 0x7ff8000000000000) ↗
• → Exploit requires user interaction: crash occurs after user elects to terminate a slow/hung Flash script via the browser dialog, not the standard Flash-not-responding infobar ↗
• → Monitor for Adobe Flash Player versions before 18.0.0.232 (Windows/macOS) or before 11.2.202.508 (Linux) loading SWF content that triggers slow-script dialogs followed by process crashes ↗

• · The vulnerability class is memory corruption via unspecified vectors; the exact trigger mechanism beyond the slow-script dialog interaction is not publicly detailed ↗
• · The PoC SWF was generated by fuzzing (mutation of a base file); reproducibility may vary across Flash versions and platforms ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 10.0 CRITICAL AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv 10.0 CRITICAL

vendor_redhat 10.0 CRITICAL

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