Adobe fixes critical and important flaws in Flash Player and Experience Manager

Adobe has issued security updates to address critical and important security vulnerabilities in Flash Player and Experience Manager.

The last Flash Player release 25.0.0.171 addresses seven vulnerabilities that can be exploited to take over vulnerable systems.

According to the security advisory published by Adobe, the vulnerabilities include a use-after-free and other memory corruption flaws that can be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.

“Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS. These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. ” reads the security advisory.

“These updates resolve a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2017-3071).

These updates resolve memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2017-3068, CVE-2017-3069, CVE-2017-3070, CVE-2017-3072, CVE-2017-3073, CVE-2017-3074).”

The company acknowledged Jihui Lu of Tencent KeenLab and Mateusz Jurczyk and Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero for reporting the vulnerabilities.

Lu reported the following flaws:

CVE-2017-3069, CVE-2017-3070, CVE-2017-3071, CVE-2017-3072, CVE-2017-3073, CVE-2017-3074;

Jurczyk and Silvanovich reported the CVE-2017-3068 vulnerability.

According to Adobe, the vulnerabilities have not been exploited by threat actors in the wild.

A separate security advisory published by Adobe addresses an important information disclosure vulnerability in the Adobe Experience Manager Forms tracked as CVE-2017-3067.

“Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms on Windows, Linux, Solaris and AIX. These updates resolve an important information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2017-3067) resulting from abuse of the pre-population service in AEM Forms.” reads the advisory.”This issue was resolved by providing administrators with additional controls in the configuration manager to restrict the file paths and protocols used to pre-fill a form. Adobe recommends users apply the available updates using the instructions provided in the “Solution” section below.”

The vulnerability was discovered by Ruben Reusser and affects the Versions 6.0 through 6.2 are.

The flaw is related to the abuse of the pre-population service in Experience Manager Forms, also in this case, Adobe confirmed that there is no evidence of exploitation in the wild.

[adrotate banner=”9″]

Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – Adobe Flash Player, Hacking)

[adrotate banner=”13″]

Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.