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Use After Free

CVE-2017-3083

High
9.8/10

Summary

Adobe Flash Player versions 25.0.0.171 and earlier have an exploitable use after free vulnerability in the Primetime SDK functionality related to the profile metadata of the media stream. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published