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CVE-2015-5581 json

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.241 and 19.x before 19.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.521…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-5535

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.8%
EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.241 and 19.x before 19.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.521 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 19.0.0.190, Adobe AIR SDK before 19.0.0.190, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 19.0.0.190 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5570, CVE-2015-5574, CVE-2015-5584, and CVE-2015-6682.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.521ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5581

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 11.2.202.521-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.521-1.el6_7

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1814

  • flash-player SLED 11 SP4, SLED 11 SP3 11.2.202.521-0.17.1
  • flash-player SLED 12, SLE Workstation Extension 12 11.2.202.521-102.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:1614-1SUSE-SU-2015:1618-1

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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-2015-5581 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-23

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.521-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.521-1.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.521-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.521-1.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.521-1.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1814

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

Exploit prediction

4.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

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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