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CVE-2014-9163

Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.259 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.246 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.

Published
Last modified
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Listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Adobe Flash Player on Windows, OS X, and Linux contains a memory flaw (a stack-based buffer overflow) that could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on an affected computer. Because the attacker could run code of their choosing, they could potentially take control of the affected system.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.259 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.246 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.425 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in December 2014.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 1

helpx.adobe.com