Advisory Details

April 3rd, 2014

Adobe Flash Player RegExp Stack Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2014-0498
CVSS SCORE	7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Adobe
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Flash Player
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Adobe Flash Player. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the usage of regular expressions in ActionScript where an expression could overflow a data structure on the stack. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Adobe has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.html
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2014-02-07 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2014-04-03 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Wen Guanxing from Venustech

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