CVE-2014-0502 vulnerability in Adobe and Other Products
Published on February 21, 2014
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. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors in an automatable fashion. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
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.
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Exploit Probability
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