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Vulnerability Note VU#945060

Adobe Flash products contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview

Several vulnerabilities in Adobe Macromedia Flash products may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

I. Description

The Adobe Flash Player is a player for the Flash media format and enables frame-based animations with sound to be viewed within a web browser.

A number of vulnerabilites have been discovered in the way that the Flash Player handles data contained within the Flash (SWF) file. The underlying cause of these vulnerabilities is unknown at this time. A maliciously crafted SWF that exploits these vulnerabilities could be supplied through a web page, for example. Because of the way that Flash Player is used, multiple Adobe products are affected by these issues, including:

  • Flash Player versions 8.0.22.0 and earlier
  • Breeze Meeting Add-In versions 5.1 and earlier
  • Shockwave Player versions 10.1.0.11 and earlier
  • Flash Debug Player versions 7.0.14.0 and earlier
  • Flash Professional 8 and Flash Basic
  • Flash MX 2004

Note that vulnerable versions of the Flash Player are provided with a number of versions of Microsoft Windows, Apple's Mac OS X, and some distributions of the Linux operating systems.

II. Impact

A remote attacker with the ability to supply a specially crafted SWF file to a vulnerable host may be able to execute arbitrary code on that system. The attacker-supplied code would be executed with the privileges of the user opening the file.

III. Solution

Apply a patch


Patches have been released in response to this issue. Please see the Systems Affected section of this document for more information.

Workarounds

Microsoft has published a number of workarounds for users of the affected products on Microsoft Windows platforms. Please see the Workarounds section of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-020 for more information.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate Updated
AdobeVulnerable16-Mar-2006
Apple Computer, Inc.Vulnerable11-Apr-2006
Gentoo LinuxVulnerable9-May-2006
Microsoft CorporationVulnerable9-May-2006
Red Hat, Inc.Vulnerable16-Mar-2006
SUSE LinuxVulnerable9-May-2006

References


http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/apsb06-03.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/916208.mspx
http://secunia.com/advisories/19218/
http://secunia.com/advisories/19259/
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-020.mspx
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179

Credit

Thanks to Adobe Systems, Inc. for reporting this vulnerability. Adobe, in turn, credits Microsoft with reporting these vulnerabilities to them.

This document was written by Chad R Dougherty.

Other Information

Date Public03/14/2006
Date First Published03/16/2006 03:30:31 PM
Date Last Updated12/18/2007
CERT Advisory 
CVE-ID(s)CVE-2006-0024
NVD-ID(s)CVE-2006-0024
US-CERT Technical Alerts 
Metric25.65
Document Revision35

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