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  Home / Hackers / About Hackers / Software Vulnerabilities / Examples and Descriptions / SA28083

Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia ID

SA28083

CVE-ID

CVE-2007-0071, CVE-2007-5275, CVE-2007-6019, CVE-2007-6243, CVE-2007-6637, CVE-2008-1654, CVE-2008-1655

Release Date

09 Apr 2008

Last Change

23 May 2008

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Software

Adobe Flash Player 9.x

Where

From remote

Impact
System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.


Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities allow a third party to manipulate the content or behaviour of a web application in a user's browser, without compromising the underlying system.

Different Cross-Site Scripting related vulnerabilities are also classified under this category, including "script insertion" and "cross-site request forgery".

Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities are often used against specific users of a website to steal their credentials or to conduct spoofing attacks.


Security Bypass

This covers vulnerabilities or security issues where malicious users or people can bypass certain security mechanisms of the application.

The actual impact varies significantly depending on the design and purpose of the affected application.


Description

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, or to potentially compromise a user's system.

1) A boundary error exists in the processing of "Declare Function (V7)" tags. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via specially crafted flags.

2) An integer overflow in the processing of multimedia files can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.

3) Errors when pinning a hostname to an IP address can be exploited to conduct DNS rebinding attacks.

This is related to vulnerability #3 in:
SA28161

4) An error when sending HTTP headers can be exploited to bypass cross-domain policy files.

5) An error exists in the enforcing of cross-domain policy files. This can be exploited to bypass certain security restrictions on web servers hosting cross-domain policy files.

This is related to vulnerability #4 in:
SA28161

6) Input passed to unspecified parameters when handling e.g. the "asfunction:" protocol is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

This is related to vulnerability #5 in:
SA28161

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 9.0.124.0.

Solution

Update to a fixed version.

-- Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and earlier --

Update to version 9.0.124.0.
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash

-- Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and earlier - network distribution --

Update to version 9.0.124.0.
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/distribution

-- Flex 3.0 --

Update to version 9.0.124.0.
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp9

-- AIR 1.0 --

Update to version 1.0.1.
http://www.adobe.com/go/getair

Reported by

1) Alin Rad Pop, Secunia Research. The vendor also credits Javier Vicente Vallejo and Shane Macaulay, reported via ZDI.
2) Reported independently by:
* Mark Dowd, ISS X-Force.
* wushi of team509, reported via ZDI.
3) The vendor credits:
* Dan Boneh, Adam Barth, Andrew Bortz, Collin Jackson, and Weidong Shao of Stanford University.
* Tom Gallagher, Microsoft.
4) Ernst and Young's Advanced Security Center.
5) Toshiharu Sugiyama of UBsecure, Inc. and JPCERT/CC.
6) Rich Cannings of the Google Security Team and Stefano Di Paola of Minded Security.

Original Advisory

Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-11.html

Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-103/

ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-021/
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-032/

ISS X-Force:
http://www.iss.net/threats/289.html




 

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