CVE-2014-0538 (GCVE-0-2014-0538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-08-12 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:20
VLAI
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.241 and 14.x before 14.0.0.176 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.400 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 14.0.0.178 on Windows and OS X and before 14.0.0.179 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 14.0.0.178, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 14.0.0.178 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
adobe CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 75/100 over 803 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/60732 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/59904 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-pl… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/58593 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030712 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-05.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2014-08-12 00:00
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