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CVE-2015-5555
published 2015-08-14

CVE-2015-5555: 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…

PriorityP266critical10CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCCICAC
EXPLOIT
EPSS
42.34%
98.6th 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 by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5554, CVE-2015-5558, and CVE-2015-5562.

Affected

5 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
adobeair<= 18.0.0.180
adobeair_sdk<= 18.0.0.180
adobeair_sdk_compiler<= 18.0.0.180
adobeflash_player<= 11.2.202.491
adobeflash_player<= 18.0.0.209

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

urlhttps://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/37874.zip
  • Type confusion triggered via TextRenderer.setAdvancedAntialiasingTable() with non-integer insideCutoff or outsideCutoff values (e.g., strings or floats passed where integers are expected)
  • Look for SWF files invoking TextRenderer.setAdvancedAntialiasingTable with a fontSize set to an empty string ("") as a reliable PoC indicator
  • Samples intentionally crash Flash — unexpected Flash Player crashes during text rendering may indicate exploitation attempts
  • ·The type-confused values (font, cutoff) cannot be directly retrieved from script, making exploitation difficult but not impossible via side-channel hit-testing of rendered text

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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