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CVE-2014-0502: Adobe Flash Player Double Free Vulnerablity

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2024-09-17
• EPSS: 24.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-02-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-415

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.

Affected products

• Adobe Air: before 4.0.0.1628 — fixed in 4.0.0.1628
• Adobe Air Sdk: before 4.0.0.1628 — fixed in 4.0.0.1628
• Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: before 11.7.700.269; from 11.8.800.94 before 12.0.0.70; before 11.2.202.341 — fixed in 11.2.202.341, 11.7.700.269, 12.0.0.70
• Opensuse: 11.4, 12.3, 13.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.5
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 6.5
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0, 6.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Adobe Air 4.0.0.1628; Adobe Air Sdk 4.0.0.1628; Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier. 11.2.202.341, 11.7.700.269, 12.0.0.70. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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