Use After Free Affecting flash-plugin package, versions <0:11.2.202.481-1.el6_6


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
99.34% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-FLASHPLUGIN-2117220
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Jul 2015

Introduced: 7 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-5119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:6 flash-plugin to version 0:11.2.202.481-1.el6_6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream flash-plugin package and not the flash-plugin package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ByteArray class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and 11.x through 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that overrides a valueOf function, as exploited in the wild in July 2015.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1