Adobe Flash Player integer overflow vulnerability

Overview

Adobe Flash contains an integer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute code on an affected system.

Description

The Adobe Flash Player is a player for the Flash media format and enables frame-based animations and multimedia to be viewed within a web browser.

Adobe Flash Player contains an integer overflow vulnerability. An attacker may be able to trigger this overflow by convincing a user to open a specially crafted SWF file. The SWF file could be hosted or imbedded in a web page.

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Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or cause the Flash player to crash.

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Solution

Upgrade

Adobe has released Flash version 9.0.124.0 to address this issue.

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Limit access to Flash files

Limiting access to untrusted Flash files may block some attack vectors that use malformed Flash files. See Securing Your Web Browser for more information. Consider using the NoScript extension to whitelist web sites that can run Flash in Mozilla browsers such as Firefox. See the NoScript FAQ for more information.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: April 25, 2008

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

See <http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&gt; for more details.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23159523 Feedback>).

CVSS Metrics

Group	Score	Vector
Base	0	AV:–/AC:–/Au:–/C:–/I:–/A:–
Temporal	0	E:ND/RL:ND/RC:ND
Environmental	0	CDP:ND/TD:ND/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

• <http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-11.html&gt;
• <http://noscript.net/&gt;
• <http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/securing_browser/&gt;
• <http://www.matasano.com/log/1032/this-new-vulnerability-dowds-inhuman-flash-exploit/&gt;
• <http://documents.iss.net/whitepapers/IBM_X-Force_WP_final.pdf&gt;
• <https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/x/vwE&gt;
• <https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/x/QgE&gt;

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Adobe for information that was used in this report.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2007-0071
Severity Metric:	38.81 Date Public: