CVE-2015-5122
CVE-2015-5122
In short
Adobe Flash Player has a use-after-free vulnerability in how it handles the opaqueBackground property of display objects. An attacker can exploit this through malicious Flash content to run arbitrary code or crash the application.
Technical detail
Use-after-free vulnerability in DisplayObject class (CWE-416) affecting ActionScript 3 in Flash Player versions 13.x–18.x across Windows, OS X, and Linux. Remote attack vector via crafted Flash content exploiting improper opaqueBackground property handling, resulting in memory corruption and arbitrary code execution or DoS.
Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the DisplayObject class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through 13.0.0.302 on Windows and OS X, 14.x through 18.0.0.203 on Windows and OS X, 11.x through 11.2.202.481 on Linux, and 12.x through 18.0.0.204 on Linux Chrome installations allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that leverages improper handling of the opaqueBackground property, as exploited in the wild in July 2015.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 3
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