# 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 b

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), NVD
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): yes, added 2024-09-17, remediation due 2024-10-08
- Exposure: Actively exploited
- Published: 2014-02-21 · Updated: 2025-10-22

## Summary

Adobe Flash Player on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, along with Adobe AIR and the Adobe AIR SDK and Compiler (including on Android), contains a double free memory flaw. A remote attacker could exploit it to run arbitrary code on an affected system.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

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## References

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

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