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CVE-2015-5579: Adobe Air: Memory corruption

CVE-2015-5579 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Adobe Air. 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

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 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5567.

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.

Underlying weakness

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.

Affected products

Adobe Air: up to and including 18.0.0.143; up to and including 18.0.0.199
Adobe Flash Player: up to and including 11.2.202.508; 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
Adobe Air Sdk: up to and including 18.0.0.199
Adobe Air Sdk & Compiler: up to and including 18.0.0.180