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CVE-2015-3042 in the critical feed json

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows at…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-3123

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
36.8%
EPSS 36.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0347, CVE-2015-0350, CVE-2015-0352, CVE-2015-0353, CVE-2015-0354, CVE-2015-0355, CVE-2015-0360, CVE-2015-3038, CVE-2015-3041, and CVE-2015-3043.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.457ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3042

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 11.2.202.457-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.457-1.el6_6

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0813

  • flash-player SLED 12, SLE Workstation Extension 12 11.2.202.457-80.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:0722-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2015-3042 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-06

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.457-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.457-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.457-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.457-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.457-1.el6_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0813

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-37839)

Exploit prediction

36.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-37839 Flash - PCRE Regex Compilation Zero-Length Assertion Arbitrary Bytecode Execution dos, 2015-08-19

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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