Memory corruption in Adobe Flash Player - CVE-2017-3070
Published: May 9, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU6442
CSH Severity: High
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-2017-3070
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to boundary error when processing .swf files. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution.Affected software
Adobe Flash Player
Gentoo Linux
Microsoft Windows
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Windows Server
Gentoo www-plugins/adobe-flash
Gentoo Linux
Microsoft Windows
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Windows Server
Gentoo www-plugins/adobe-flash
How to mitigate CVE-2017-3070
Update to version 25.0.0.171.