adobe air CVE-2014-0502 vulnerability in Adobe and Other Products
Published on February 21, 2014

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Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.269 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.70 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.341 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1628 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1628, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1628 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2014.

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Adobe Flash Player Double Free Vulnerablity vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Adobe Flash Player contains a double free vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by October 8, 2024: The impacted product is end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users should discontinue utilization of the product.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2014-0502 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 2.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

What is a Double-free Vulnerability?

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations. When a program calls free() twice with the same argument, the program's memory management data structures become corrupted. This corruption can cause the program to crash or, in some circumstances, cause two later calls to malloc() to return the same pointer. If malloc() returns the same value twice and the program later gives the attacker control over the data that is written into this doubly-allocated memory, the program becomes vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.

CVE-2014-0502 has been classified to as a Double-free vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2014-0502

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Adobe Air
 
Adobe Flash Player
 
Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop
 
OpenSuse
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus
 

What versions are vulnerable to CVE-2014-0502?

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