Vulnerability Note VU#159523

Adobe Flash Player integer overflow vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player contains an integer overflow vulnerability. An attacker may be able to trigger this overflow by convincing a user to open a specially crafted SWF file. The SWF file could be hosted or imbedded in a web page.

II. Impact

Adobe has released Flash version 9.0.124.0 to address this issue.

Limit access to Flash files

Limiting access to untrusted Flash files may block some attack vectors that use malformed Flash files. See Securing Your Web Browser for more information. Consider using the NoScript extension to whitelist web sites that can run Flash in Mozilla browsers such as Firefox. See the NoScript FAQ for more information.

Systems Affected

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-11.html
http://noscript.net/
http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/securing_browser/
http://www.matasano.com/log/1032/this-new-vulnerability-dowds-inhuman-flash-exploit/
http://documents.iss.net/whitepapers/IBM_X-Force_WP_final.pdf
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/MEM32-C.+Detect+and+handle+memory+allocation+errors
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/INT02-A.+Understand+integer+conversion+rules

Credit

Thanks to Adobe for information that was used in this report.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

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