Memory corruption in Adobe Flash Player - CVE-2011-0611

Vulnerability identifier: #VU2834

CSH Severity: Critical

CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2011-0611

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error in authplay.dll component. A remote attacker can create a specially Flash (.swf) file embedded in a Microsoft Word (.doc) file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption, and execute arbitrary code on the system with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.

Adobe Flash Player
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Adobe Reader
Adobe Acrobat

Update Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier to 10.2.159.1.
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/distribution
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp10

• Exploit #651 - Adobe Flash Player 10.2.153.1 - SWF Memory Corruption (Metasploit) (March 18, 2020)
• Exploit #652 - Adobe Reader X 10.0.0 < 10.0.1 - Atom Type Confusion Exploit (March 18, 2020)
• Exploit #1708 - Adobe Flash Player 10.2.153.1 SWF Memory Corruption Vulnerability (March 18, 2020)

• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-07.html
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-08.html

• Remote code execution in Adobe Flash Player
• Remote code execution in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader
• openSUSE update for flash-player
• Red Hat update for flash-plugin