CVE-2015-8456 (GCVE-0-2015-8456)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-10 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
VLAI
Summary
Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.268 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.228 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.554 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.204, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.204, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.204 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8439.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-12-08 00:00
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