Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High · 7.8 Known exploited Public exploit CVE-2015-5119 EUVD-2015-5134GHSA-3792-ff84-674w

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ByteArray class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through 13.0.0.29…

Published Jul 8, 2015 · Updated Nov 17, 2025 · Assigned by adobe

Package: flashplugin-nonfree Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ByteArray class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and 11.x through 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that overrides a valueOf function, as exploited in the wild in July 2015.

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.

Ubuntu

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS flashplugin-nonfree 11.2.202.481ubuntu0.14.04.1 —

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 6 flash-plugin 11.2.202.481-1.el6_6 RHSA-2015:1214
RHEL 5 flash-plugin 11.2.202.481-1.el5 RHSA-2015:1214

SUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 12 flash-player 11.2.202.481-93.1 SUSE-SU-2015:1211-1

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.

Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 1

GitHub 3 repositories

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

Advisories 2

References