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CVE-2014-0497: Adobe Flash Player Integer Underflow Vulnerablity

CVE-2014-0497 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and affects Adobe Flash Player, along with 8 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication, without any user interaction. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available. CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-09-17, which means exploitation in the wild has been observed.

Vulnerability description

Integer underflow in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.261 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.44 on Windows and Mac OS X, and before 11.2.202.336 on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v3.1 9.8: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network, with no need for local or physical access.
• Attack complexity: Low. No special conditions; the attack can be repeated reliably.
• Privileges required: None. No account or prior access is needed.
• User interaction: None. No action from any user is needed.
• Scope: Unchanged. Impact stays within the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: High. Total loss of confidentiality; sensitive data can be fully disclosed.
• Integrity impact: High. Total loss of integrity; data or system state can be fully modified.
• Availability impact: High. Total loss of availability; the component can be shut down.

Underlying weakness

CWE-191: Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result.

Affected products

• Adobe Flash Player: before 11.2.202.336; before 11.7.700.261; from 11.8.800.94 before 12.0.0.44
• Google Chrome: before 32.0.1700.107
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0; 6.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.5
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0; 6.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 6.5
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0; 6.0
• Opensuse: 11.4; 12.3; 13.1
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 11 sp2; 11 sp3

References

• http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-04.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0137.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56437
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56737
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56780
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56799
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56839
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33212
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65327
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029715
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90884
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/02/stable-channel-update.html
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-0497
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00000.html