VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5266

critical
Published 2012-10-09 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.29 and 11.x before 11.4.402.287 on Windows and Mac OS X, before 10.3.183.29 and 11.x before 11.2.202.243 on Linux, before 11.1.111.19 on Android 2.x and 3.x, and before 11.1.115.20 on Android 4.x; Adobe AIR before 3.4.0.2710; and Adobe AIR SDK before 3.4.0.2710 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than other Flash Player buffer overflow CVEs listed in APSB12-22.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"10.3.183.25"}
adobe adobeflash_player10.1.85.3
adobe adobeflash_player10.1.102.64
adobe adobeflash_player10.2.152.26
adobe adobeflash_player10.2.152.32
adobe adobeflash_player10.2.153.1
adobe adobeflash_player10.2.159.1
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.181.14
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.181.16
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.181.22
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.181.26
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.181.34
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.183.5
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.183.7
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.183.10
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.183.11
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.183.15
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.183.16
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.183.18
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.183.20
adobe adobeflash_player10.3.183.23
adobe adobeflash_player11.0.1.152
adobe adobeflash_player11.1.102.55
adobe adobeflash_player11.1.102.62
adobe adobeflash_player11.1.102.63
adobe adobeflash_player11.2.202.223
adobe adobeflash_player11.2.202.228
adobe adobeflash_player11.2.202.233
adobe adobeflash_player11.2.202.235
adobe adobeflash_player11.2.202.238
adobe adobeflash_player11.2.202.243
adobe adobeflash_player11.3.300.257
adobe adobeflash_player11.3.300.262
adobe adobeflash_player11.3.300.265
adobe adobeflash_player11.3.300.268
adobe adobeflash_player11.3.300.271
adobe adobeflash_player11.3.300.273
adobe adobeflash_player11.4.402.265
adobe adobeflash_player11.4.402.278
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android{"endIncluding":"11.1.111.16"}
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android10.1.106.17
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android10.2.157.51
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android10.3.186.7
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.0.1.153
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.102.59
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.111.5
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.111.7
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.111.8
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.111.9
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.111.10
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.112.60
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.112.61
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.115.7
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.115.8
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.115.11
adobe adobeflash_player_for_android11.1.115.12
adobe adobeadobe_air{"endIncluding":"3.4.0.2540"}
adobe adobeadobe_air1.0
adobe adobeadobe_air1.0.1
adobe adobeadobe_air1.0.8.4990
adobe adobeadobe_air1.0.4990
adobe adobeadobe_air1.1
adobe adobeadobe_air1.1.0.5790
adobe adobeadobe_air1.5
adobe adobeadobe_air1.5.0.7220
adobe adobeadobe_air1.5.1
adobe adobeadobe_air1.5.1.8210
adobe adobeadobe_air1.5.2
adobe adobeadobe_air1.5.3
adobe adobeadobe_air1.5.3.9120
adobe adobeadobe_air1.5.3.9130
adobe adobeadobe_air2.0.2
adobe adobeadobe_air2.0.2.12610
adobe adobeadobe_air2.0.3
adobe adobeadobe_air2.0.3.13070
adobe adobeadobe_air2.0.4
adobe adobeadobe_air2.5.0.16600
adobe adobeadobe_air2.5.1.17730
adobe adobeadobe_air2.6
adobe adobeadobe_air2.6.0.19120
adobe adobeadobe_air2.6.0.19140
adobe adobeadobe_air2.7
adobe adobeadobe_air2.7.0.1948
adobe adobeadobe_air2.7.0.1953
adobe adobeadobe_air2.7.0.19480
adobe adobeadobe_air2.7.0.19530
adobe adobeadobe_air2.7.1
adobe adobeadobe_air2.7.1.19610
adobe adobeadobe_air3.0.0.408
adobe adobeadobe_air3.0.0.4080
adobe adobeadobe_air3.1.0.485
adobe adobeadobe_air3.1.0.488
adobe adobeadobe_air3.1.0.4880
adobe adobeadobe_air3.2.0.207
adobe adobeadobe_air3.2.0.2070
adobe adobeadobe_air3.3.0.3670
adobe adobeadobe_air_sdk{"endIncluding":"3.4.0.2540"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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