CVE-2015-5548

published 2015-08-14

CVE-2015-5548: 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-2015-5545, CVE-2015-5546, CVE-2015-5547, 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

hash e3f87b25c25db8f9ec3c975f8c1211cc↗

filename signal_sigsegv_7ffff637297a_8900_e3f87b25c25db8f9ec3c975f8c1211cc.swf↗

filename e3f87b25c25db8f9ec3c975f8c1211cc.swf↗

url https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/37870.zip↗

• → The vulnerability is triggered via malformed SWF files exploiting XML handling in Adobe Flash Player. Monitor for SWF files causing SIGSEGV crashes with wild pointer dereference at rcx=0x303030303030300 (pattern of '0' bytes), indicative of controlled memory corruption. ↗
• → The exploit primitive allows a wild pointer target to be incremented (read → increment → write-back pattern). Detection should look for Flash Player crashes involving a read-modify-write sequence on a controlled/wild pointer, particularly in XML processing code paths. ↗
• → Crash originates from XML handling logic in Adobe Flash Player on Linux x64. Suspicious SWF files triggering XML-related memory corruption should be flagged for analysis. ↗

• · CVE-2015-5548 is one of several memory corruption vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-5544, -5545, -5546, -5547, -5548, -5549, -5552, -5553) patched in the same Adobe Flash release. The NVD source references CVE-2015-5547 explicitly; the SWF PoC sample may relate to any one of these sibling CVEs. ↗

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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