CVE-2015-8438 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Adobe AIR

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
7.1%
top 8.42%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Adobe AIRAdobe AIR SDKAdobe AIR SDK Compiler+1 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 10
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.268 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.228 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.554 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.204, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.204, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.204 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XML object that is mishandled during a toString call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8446.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDadobe/flash_player18.0.0.261+5
▶NVDadobe/air_sdk_compiler19.0.0.241
▶NVDadobe/air19.0.0.241
▶NVDadobe/air_sdk19.0.0.241

Patches

Patch: helpx.adobe.com ↗Patch: helpx.adobe.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-5782-w4rr-jrj9: Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-8438: Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2015-12-10
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CVEList
CVE-2015-8438: Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2015-12-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-32↗2015-12-08
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-32↗2015-12-08
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-32↗2015-12-08
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