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CVE-2015-3113: Adobe Flash Player Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
CVE-2015-3113 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and affects Adobe Flash Player, along with 14 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 2022-04-13, which means exploitation in the wild has been observed.
Vulnerability description
Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.x before 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in June 2015.
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-787: Out-of-bounds Write
The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
The product writes past the end of a buffer that was allocated on the heap.
Affected products
- Adobe Flash Player: before 13.0.0.296; from 14.0.0.125 before 18.0.0.194; before 11.2.202.468
- Opensuse Evergreen: 11.4
- Opensuse: 13.1; 13.2
- Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 12
- Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12
- HP Insight Orchestration: before 7.5.0
- HP System Management Homepage: before 7.5.0
- HP Systems Insight Manager: before 7.5
- HP Version Control Agent: before 7.5.0
- HP Version Control Repository Manager: before 7.5.0; 7.6
- HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager: before 7.5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0
References
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-14.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00002.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1184.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75371
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032696
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-13
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3113.html
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-3113
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235036
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935701
- https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952467