CVE-2015-5122highunder attackCWE-416

CVE-2015-5122

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ssvc Actcvss 7.8epss 87%
from disclosure to weaponsame day
Published on NVDJul 14
1st PoCJul 13
metasploitJul 6
CISA KEV+2465d
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5 products
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6)
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Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2022-05-04

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

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.

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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
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