Zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player
Memory corruption
CVE-2011-2110
This is the same vulnerability that was used for attacks against Korean based organizations.
The vulnerability wasd exploited to compromise legitimate websites
(including an Indian government site, a US airport site, and an
aerospace site).
Vulnerability details
Advisory: SB2011061401 - Remote code execution in Adobe Flash Player
Vulnerable component: Adobe Flash Player
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-2110
CVSSv3 score: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:O/RC:C
CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption
Description:
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to an array indexing error in the ActionScript3 AVM2 verification logic. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted Web site, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.
Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.
Public Exploits:
- Adobe Flash Player - AVM Verification Logic Array Indexing Code Execution (Metasploit) [Exploit-DB]
External links:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-18.html
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/attacksignatures/detail.jsp?asid=24336
https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/research/patching-flash-cve-2011-2110-post-mortem
http://zscaler-research.blogspot.com/2011/06/oh-flash-cve-2011-2110-0-day.html
https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/windows/browser/adobe_flashplayer_arrayindexing
http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Calendar/20110617
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2011/07/01/a-technical-analysis-on-the-exploit-for-cve-2011...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2621840/patch-management/adobe-patches-second-flash-zero-day-in-9-d...