CVE-2005-3591

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Macromedia Flash plugin (1) Flash.ocx 7.0.19.0 (Windows) and earlier and (2) libflashplayer.so before 7.0.25.0 (Unix) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via parameters to the ActionDefineFunction ActionScript call in a SWF file, which causes an improper memory access condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2628.

Affected products

Macromedia Flash Player: 6.0, 6.0.29.0, 6.0.40.0, 6.0.47.0, 6.0.65.0, 6.0.79.0 (+2)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113140426614670&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/17430/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17437/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17481/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17626/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17738/
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/149
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb05-07.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/910550.mspx
http://www.sec-consult.com/226.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15334
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2317

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