CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-3073

Use After Free

Published: May 09, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Adobe Flash Player versions 25.0.0.148 and earlier have an exploitable use after free vulnerability when handling multiple mask properties of display objects, aka memory corruption. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Flash_player_desktop_runtime Adobe * 25.0.0.163 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat flash-plugin-0:25.0.0.171-1.el6_9 *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu devel *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu trusty *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu xenial *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu yakkety *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu zesty *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu devel *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu trusty *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu xenial *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu yakkety *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References