Buffer over-read in Adobe Flash Player - CVE-2018-5008

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Buffer over-read in Adobe Flash Player - CVE-2018-5008

Published: July 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13623
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5008
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain read access to objects in memory.

The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds read error when processing .swf files. A remote attacker can us a specially crafted .swf file to trigger memory corruption and gain access to data, stored in memory.


Affected software

Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player for Microsoft Windows
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

How to mitigate CVE-2018-5008

Update to version 30.0.0.134.

Adobe Flash Player - update to 30.0.0.134

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