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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2009-1868 EUVD-2009-1863GHSA-4qww-9ghh-23c6

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.246.0 and 10.x before 10.0.32.18, and Adobe AIR before 1.5.2, allows attackers …

Published Jul 31, 2009 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.246.0 and 10.x before 10.0.32.18, and Adobe AIR before 1.5.2, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving URL parsing.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 5 flash-plugin 10.0.32.18-2.el5 RHSA-2009:1188
RHEL 4 flash-plugin 9.0.246.0-2.el4 RHSA-2009:1189
RHEL 3 flash-plugin 9.0.246.0-2.el3.with.oss RHSA-2009:1189

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Advisories 2

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