CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-9746

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 14, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
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
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Adobe Flash Player version 32.0.0.433 (and earlier) are affected by an exploitable NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that could result in a crash and arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to insert malicious strings in an HTTP response that is by default delivered over TLS/SSL.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Flash_playerAdobe*32.0.0.433 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryRedHatflash-plugin-0:32.0.0.445-1.el6_10*
Adobe-flashpluginUbuntubionic*
Adobe-flashpluginUbuntutrusty*
Adobe-flashpluginUbuntuxenial*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntubionic*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntuesm-apps/bionic*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntuesm-apps/focal*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntufocal*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntutrusty*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References