CVE-2014-8439

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2014-11-25
Bugzilla:
1168057: CVE-2014-8439 flash-plugin: hardening against a code execution flaw (APSB14-26)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.258 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.239 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.424 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.293, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.302, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.302 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8439 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (flash-plugin) RHSA-2014:1915 2014-11-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (flash-plugin) RHSA-2014:1915 2014-11-26

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