VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-5133

critical
Published 2015-08-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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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 18.0.0.232 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.508 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 18.0.0.199, Adobe AIR SDK before 18.0.0.199, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 18.0.0.199 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5131 and CVE-2015-5132.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37858 dos windows verified
Google Security Research · 2015-08-19

Adobe Flash - Out-of-Bounds Memory Read While Parsing a Mutated '.TTF' File Embedded in SWF

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

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":"11.2.202.491"}
adobe adobeair{"endIncluding":"18.0.0.180"}
adobe adobeair_sdk{"endIncluding":"18.0.0.180"}
adobe adobeair_sdk_\&_compiler{"endIncluding":"18.0.0.180"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.