Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash Player / AIR, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of system information or compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37584
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37584/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash Player / AIR,
which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of
system information or compromise a user's system.
1) An error when parsing JPEG dimensions contained within an SWF file
can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
2) An unspecified error may allow injection of data and potentially
lead to execution of arbitrary code.
3) An unspecified error possibly related to "getProperty()" can be
exploited to corrupt memory and may allow execution of arbitrary
code.
4) An unspecified error can be exploited to corrupt memory and may
allow execution of arbitrary code.
5) An integer overflow error when generating ActionScript exception
handlers in Verifier::parseExceptionHandlers() can be exploited to
corrupt memory.
6) Various unspecified errors may potentially allow execution of
arbitrary code.
7) An error may disclose information about local file names.
The vulnerabilities are reported in Adobe Flash Player version
10.0.32.18 and prior and Adobe AIR version 1.5.2 and prior.
SOLUTION:
Update to Flash Player version 10.0.42.34 and AIR version 1.5.3.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) An anonymous person via Zero Day Initiative.
2) The vendor credits Jim Cheng, EffectiveUI.
3-4) Bing Liu, Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.
5) Damian Put via Zero Day Initiative.
6) The vendor credits Will Dormann, CERT.
7) The vendor credits Manuel Caballero and Microsoft Vulnerability
Research.
CHANGELOG:
2009-12-09: Added additional information provided by ZDI.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-19.html
ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-092/
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-093/
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