Vulnerability Note VU#159523
Adobe Flash Player integer overflow vulnerability
OverviewAdobe Flash contains an integer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute code on an affected system.
I. DescriptionThe Adobe Flash Player is a player for the Flash media format and enables frame-based animations and multimedia to be viewed within a web browser.
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. ImpactA remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or cause the Flash player to crash.
III. SolutionUpgrade
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
| Vendor | Status | Date Updated |
| Adobe | Vulnerable | 25-Apr-2008 |
References
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.
Other Information
| Date Public | 04/08/2008 |
| Date First Published | 04/25/2008 12:47:22 PM |
| Date Last Updated | 04/25/2008 |
| CERT Advisory | |
| CVE Name | CVE-2007-0071 |
| US-CERT Technical Alerts | |
| Metric | 38.81 |
| Document Revision | 17 |
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