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Adobe Flash FLA File Processing Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Title : Adobe Flash FLA File Processing Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0948
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1201
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-20

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Flash Professional 8 and Flash Basic 8, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These issues are caused by memory corruption errors when handling malformed FLA files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted FLA file.

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by cocoruder (Fortinet Security Research Team).

ChangeLog

2008-03-20 : Initial release
2008-05-07 : Updated Affected Products

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