Severity: High
Summary:
- These vulnerabilities affect: Adobe Flash Player, Shockwave Player, and ColdFusion
- How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including enticing your users to open malicious files or visit specially crafted web sites
- Impact: Various results; in the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your computer
- What to do: Install the appropriate Adobe patches immediately, or let Adobe's updater do it for you.
Exposure:
Today, Adobe released three security bulletins describing vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Shockwave Player, and ColdFusion. A remote attacker could exploit the worst of these flaws to gain complete control of your computer. The summary below details some of the vulnerabilities in these popular software packages.
- APSB13-17: Three Flash Player Memory Corruption Flaws
Adobe’s bulletin describes three vulnerabilities in Flash Player running on all platforms. More specifically, the flaws consist of various memory corruption flaws, including a buffer overflow and integer overflow flaw. If an attacker can lure you to a web site, or get you to open a document containing specially crafted Flash content, he could exploit these flaws to execute code on your computer, with your privileges. If you have administrative or root privileges, the attacker could gain full control of your computer.
Adobe assigns these flaws their highest severity rating for Windows computers, but a lesser severity for Mac and Linux machines.
Adobe Priority Rating: 1 for Windows(Patch within 72 hours)
- APSB13-18: Shockwave Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Adobe Shockwave Player displays interactive, animated web content and movies called Shockwave. According to Adobe, the Shockwave Player is installed on some 450 million PCs.
Adobe’s bulletin describes an unspecified memory corruption vulnerability that affects Shockwave Player running on Windows and Macintosh computers.They don't share any technical details about the flaw, but do share its scope and impact. If an attacker can entice one of your users into visiting a website containing some sort of malicious Shockwave content, he could exploit the flaw to execute code on that user’s computer, with that user’s privileges. If your Windows users have local administrator privileges, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain full control of their computer.
Adobe Priority Rating: 1(Patch within 72 hours)
- APSB13-19: Two ColdFusion Vulnerabilities
Adobe Priority Rating: 1 for version 10(Patch within 72 hours)
Solution Path:
Adobe has released updates for all their affected software. If you use any of the software below, we recommend you download and deploy the corresponding updates as soon as possible, or let Adobe’s automatic updater do it for you:
- APSB13-17: Upgrade to the latest (11.8.800.94 for Windows)
- APSB13-18: Upgrade to the latest Shockwave Player (12.0.3.133)
- APSB13-19: Apply the corresponding ColdFusion hotfix. More details in this Adobe technote.
