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CVE-2015-5574: Adobe Flash Player: Use after free

CVE-2015-5574 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Adobe Flash Player. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.241 and 19.x before 19.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.521 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 19.0.0.190, Adobe AIR SDK before 19.0.0.190, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 19.0.0.190 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5570, CVE-2015-5581, CVE-2015-5584, and CVE-2015-6682.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Adobe Flash Player: up to and including 13.0.0.289; 14.0.0.125; 14.0.0.145; 14.0.0.176; 14.0.0.179; 15.0.0.152; 15.0.0.167; 15.0.0.189; 15.0.0.223; 15.0.0.239; 15.0.0.246; 16.0.0.235
  • Adobe Air: up to and including 18.0.0.143; up to and including 18.0.0.199
  • Adobe Air Sdk: up to and including 18.0.0.199
  • Adobe Air Sdk & Compiler: up to and including 18.0.0.180

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