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CVE-2018-4945

Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Published: Jul 09, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4945
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/704.html

Adobe Flash Player versions 29.0.0.171 and earlier have a Type Confusion vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.

Weakness

The product does not correctly convert an object, resource, or structure from one type to a different type.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Flash_player_desktop_runtime Adobe * 29.0.0.171 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat flash-plugin-0:30.0.0.113-1.el6_9 *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu artful *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu bionic *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu devel *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu trusty *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu upstream *
Adobe-flashplugin Ubuntu xenial *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu artful *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu bionic *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu devel *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu trusty *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu upstream *
Flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu xenial *

References

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