adobe air CVE-2014-8439 vulnerability in Adobe Products
Published on November 25, 2014

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.258 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.239 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.424 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.293, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.302, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.302 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Adobe Flash Player Dereferenced Pointer Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Adobe Flash Player has a vulnerability in the way it handles a dereferenced memory pointer which could lead to code execution.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 15, 2022: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Vulnerability Analysis

What is a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?

The software performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.

CVE-2014-8439 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2014-8439

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What versions are vulnerable to CVE-2014-8439?

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