Memory corruption in Adobe Flash Player - CVE-2011-2110

 

Memory corruption in Adobe Flash Player - CVE-2011-2110

Published: December 27, 2016 / Updated: November 20, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU2925
CSH Severity: Critical
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:A/U:Red
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-2110
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild
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 an array indexing error in the ActionScript3 AVM2 verification logic. 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.

Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.

How to mitigate CVE-2011-2110

Update Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris to 10.3.181.26.
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/distribution
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/
Update Adobe Flash Player for Android to 10.3.185.24.
market://details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer

Sources