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CVE-2015-3088 in the critical feed json

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.289 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.188 on Windows and OS X and before 1…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-3169

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
62.0%
EPSS 62.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.289 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.188 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.460 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 17.0.0.172, Adobe AIR SDK before 17.0.0.172, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 17.0.0.172 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.460ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3088

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 11.2.202.460-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.460-1.el6_6

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1005

  • flash-player SLED 12, SLE Workstation Extension 12 11.2.202.460-83.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:0878-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-3088 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-09

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.460-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.460-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.460-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.460-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.460-1.el6_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1005

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-37844)

Exploit prediction

61.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-37844 Adobe Flash - AVSS.setSubscribedTags Use-After-Free Memory Corruption 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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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