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Adobe AIR < 18.0.0.180 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB15-16)

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8858

Synopsis

The remote host is running an outdated version of Adobe AIR.

Description

Versions of Adobe AIR prior to 18.0.0.180 are outdated and thus unpatched for the following vulnerabilities :

 - An information disclosure vulnerability exists that allows an attacker to guess the address for the Flash heap. (CVE-2015-3097)
 - Multiple heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist that allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-3135, CVE-2015-4432, CVE-2015-5118)
 - Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities exist that allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-3117, CVE-2015-3123, CVE-2015-3130, CVE-2015-3133, CVE-2015-3134, CVE-2015-4431)
 - Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws exist. (CVE-2015-3126, CVE-2015-4429)
 - A security bypass vulnerability exists that results in an information disclosure. (CVE-2015-3114)
 - Multiple type confusion vulnerabilities exist that allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-3119, CVE-2015-3120, CVE-2015-3121, CVE-2015-3122, CVE-2015-4433)
 - Multiple use-after-free errors exist that allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-3118, CVE-2015-3124, CVE-2015-5117, CVE-2015-3127, CVE-2015-3128, CVE-2015-3129, CVE-2015-3131, CVE-2015-3132, CVE-2015-3136, CVE-2015-3137, CVE-2015-4428, CVE-2015-4430, CVE-2015-5119)
 - Multiple same-origin policy bypass vulnerabilities exist that allow information disclosure. (CVE-2014-0578, CVE-2015-3115, CVE-2015-3116, CVE-2015-3125, CVE-2015-5116)
 - A memory corruption issue exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-5124)

Solution

Upgrade to Adobe AIR 18.0.0.180 or later.

See Also

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-16.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?0cb17c10

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 8858

Family: Web Clients

Published: 9/11/2015

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 84641

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:adobe_air

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2015

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player ByteArray Use After Free)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0578, CVE-2015-3097, CVE-2015-3114, CVE-2015-3115, CVE-2015-3116, CVE-2015-3117, CVE-2015-3118, CVE-2015-3119, CVE-2015-3120, CVE-2015-3121, CVE-2015-3122, CVE-2015-3123, CVE-2015-3124, CVE-2015-3125, CVE-2015-3126, CVE-2015-3127, CVE-2015-3128, CVE-2015-3129, CVE-2015-3130, CVE-2015-3131, CVE-2015-3132, CVE-2015-3133, CVE-2015-3134, CVE-2015-3135, CVE-2015-3136, CVE-2015-3137, CVE-2015-4428, CVE-2015-4429, CVE-2015-4430, CVE-2015-4431, CVE-2015-4432, CVE-2015-4433, CVE-2015-5116, CVE-2015-5117, CVE-2015-5118, CVE-2015-5119, CVE-2015-5124

BID: 75090, 75568, 75590, 75591, 75592, 75593, 75594, 75595, 75596