18825 : Macromedia Flash Player Flash.ocx Unspecified Function Arbitrary Code Execution
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
8	1581	over 4 years ago	5 months ago	8 times	90%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2005-06-27	2005-11-02	2005-11-02

Time to Patch
128 days

Keywords

EEYEB-20050627b, MPSB05-07

Description

Flash.ocx, part of Macromedia Flash Player, fails to perform proper validation of the frame type identifier from SWF files. The frame type identifier is used as an index into an array of function pointers. With a specially crafted SWF file, a remote attacker can cause arbitrary code execution, resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to Flash Player 8 (8.0.22.0) or Flash Player 7 update 7.0.60.0 or higher, as they have been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Macromedia, Inc.	Flash Player	7.0.19.0
Macromedia, Inc.	Flash Plugin for Browsers	7.0.60

References

Security Tracker: 1015156
Secunia Advisory ID: 17430 17437 17481 17626 17738 20045
SCIP VulDB ID: 1875
CVE ID: 2005-2628 (see also: NVD)
ISS X-Force ID: 22959
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 913433 913433
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0130.html
Vendor URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flashplugin/
http://www.macromedia.com/
Other Advisory URL: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2005-Nov/0007.html
http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/upcoming/20050627b.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-21.xml
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb05-07.html
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb05-07.html
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb05-07.html
News Article: http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4740
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS06-020

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Fang Xing - advisorieseeye.com - eEye Digital Security
Bernhard Mueller - researchsec-consult.com - Sec Consult

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.1
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-11-05 | Disagree?

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