CVE-2014-0502

Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.269 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.70 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.341 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1628 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1628, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1628 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2014.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00017.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0196.html
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-04.xml
• http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2014-0502/
• https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2014/04/building-decoder-for-cve-2014-0502.html
• http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00017.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0196.html
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-04.xml
• http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2014-0502/
• https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2014/04/building-decoder-for-cve-2014-0502.html