[PCWorks] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

  • From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:50:16 -0500

TITLE:
Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

Criticality level:  Highly critical
Impact:  System access
Where:  From remote

http://secunia.com/advisories/40907/

DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash 
Player,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct 
click-jacking
attacks or compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the ActionScript Virtual Machine 1 (AVM1) when
handling the "ActionPush" command can be exploited to corrupt
memory.

2) Unspecified errors can be exploited to corrupt memory. No 
more
information is currently available.

3) An unspecified error can be exploited to corrupt memory. No 
more
information is currently available.

4) An error in the "connect" method exposed via ActionScript 
native
object number 2200 can be exploited to corrupt memory by 
calling the
method several times with differing strings.

5) An unspecified error can be exploited to corrupt memory. No 
more
information is currently available.

Successful exploitation of vulnerabilities #1 through #5 may 
allow
execution of arbitrary code.

6) A click-jacking error can be exploited to trick a user into
performing unintended actions.

SOLUTION:
Update to a fixed version.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-16.html

ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-149

US-CERT VU#660993:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/660993


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