Secunia Research: Adobe Flash Player "Declare Function (V7)" Heap Overflow
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Secunia Research 08/04/2008
- Adobe Flash Player "Declare Function (V7)" Heap Overflow -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10
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1) Affected Software
* Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0.
NOTE: Prior versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: Remote
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
"Adobe Flash Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly
expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user
experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones,
and devices."
Product Link:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing
of "Declare Function (V7)" tags. This can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow via specially crafted argument preload
flags.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
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5) Solution
Update to version 9.0.124.0.
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6) Time Table
19/12/2007 - Vendor notified.
19/12/2007 - Vendor response.
08/04/2008 - Public disclosure.
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7) Credits
Discovered by Alin Rad Pop, Secunia Research.
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8) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2007-6019 for the vulnerability.
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10) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-103/
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