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CVE-2015-3043: Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-03-03
• EPSS: 73.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0347, CVE-2015-0350, CVE-2015-0352, CVE-2015-0353, CVE-2015-0354, CVE-2015-0355, CVE-2015-0360, CVE-2015-3038, CVE-2015-3041, and CVE-2015-3042.

Affected products

• Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: before 11.2.202.457; before 13.0.0.281; from 14.0.0.125 before 17.0.0.169 — fixed in 11.2.202.457, 13.0.0.281, 17.0.0.169
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 11.0-sp3, 12.0
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12.0
• openSUSE Evergreen: 11.4
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 6.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server From Rhui: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0, 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier. 11.2.202.457, 13.0.0.281, 17.0.0.169. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00011.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00013.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0813.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74062
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032105
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-06.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-07
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37536/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00011.html

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