CVE-2018-4877 — Use After Free in Adobe Flash Player

CWE-416 — Use After Free7 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
5.0%
top 10.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Adobe Flash PlayerRedhat Enterprise Linux DesktopRedhat Enterprise Linux Server+1 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 6
Latest updateMay 13

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player before 28.0.0.161. This vulnerability occurs due to a dangling pointer in the Primetime SDK related to media player's quality of service functionality. A successful attack can lead to arbitrary code execution.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDadobe/flash_player< 28.0.0.161

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-hcf8-mxwr-h337: A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player before 28↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-4877: A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player before 28↗2018-02-06
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CVEList
CVE-2018-4877: A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player before 28↗2018-02-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
flash-plugin: use-after-free causing remote code execution (APSB18-03)↗2018-02-01
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-4877 CVE-2018-4878 flash-plugin: use-after-free causing remote code execution (APSB18-03)↗2018-02-05
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