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CVE-2015-5122

Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2022-04-13. Federal due date: 2022-05-04.

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

Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AdobeFlash Player
from 13.0 through 13.0.0.302
from 18.0 through 18.0.0.203
from 18.0 through 18.0.0.204
from 11.0 through 11.2.202.481
AdobeFlash Player Desktop Runtime
from 18.0 through 18.0.0.203
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Versions 5.0, 6.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Versions 5.0, 6.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Eus
Version 6.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Workstation
Versions 5.0, 6.0
OpensuseEvergreen
Version 11.4
SuseLinux Enterprise Desktop
Versions 11, 12
SuseLinux Enterprise Workstation Extension
Version 12

Weakness classification

CWE-416

References