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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2013-3343

High
10/10

Summary

Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.90 and 11.x before 11.7.700.224 on Windows, before 10.3.183.90 and 11.x before 11.7.700.225 on Mac OS X, before 10.3.183.90 and 11.x before 11.2.202.291 on Linux, before 11.1.111.59 on Android 2.x and 3.x, and before 11.1.115.63 on Android 4.x; Adobe AIR before 3.7.0.2090 on Windows and Android and before 3.7.0.2100 on Mac OS X; and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 3.7.0.2090 on Windows and before 3.7.0.2100 on Mac OS X allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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  • Published