Buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player - CVE-2011-0625

 

Buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player - CVE-2011-0625

Published: December 27, 2016 / Updated: January 9, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU2916
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-0625
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Adobe
Affected software:
Adobe Flash Player

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The weakness exists due to buffer overflow caused by improper bounds checking. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted Web site, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.

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

How to mitigate CVE-2011-0625

Update Adobe Flash Player 10.x for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris to 10.3.181.14.
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/distribution
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/04/stable-channel-update.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp10
Update Adobe Flash Player 10.x for Android to 10.3.185.21.
market://details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer

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