# CVE-2007-5275: The Adobe Macromedia Flash 9 plug-in allows remote attackers to cause a victim machine to establish TCP sessions with arbitrary hosts via a

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2007-10-08 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The Adobe Macromedia Flash 9 plug-in allows remote attackers to cause a victim machine to establish TCP sessions with arbitrary hosts via a Flash (SWF) movie, related to lack of pinning of a hostname to a single IP address after receiving an allow-access-from element in a cross-domain-policy XML document, and the availability of a Flash Socket class that does not use the browser's DNS pins, aka DNS rebinding attacks, a different issue than CVE-2002-1467 and CVE-2007-4324.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00007.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29865
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28157
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30507
- http://crypto.stanford.edu/dns/dns-rebinding.pdf
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28570
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-11.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1724/references
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-355A.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9250
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200801-07.xml
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0221.html
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30430
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28161
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1126.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29763
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238305-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26930
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4258
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019116
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-21.xml
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697

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