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Adobe Flash FLA File Parsing Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29455
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Release Date:
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2008-03-20
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Popularity:
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7,698 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | Adobe Flash CS3
Macromedia Flash MX 2004
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1201
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Description:
cocoruder has reported some vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors when parsing specially crafted FLA files.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code when opening a malicious FLA file.
Solution:
According to the vendor, the vulnerabilities will be fixed in the next major release of Flash Professional.
Do not open untrusted FLA files.
Provided and/or discovered by:
cocoruder
Original Advisory:
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa08-03.html
cocoruder:
http://ruder.cdut.net/blogview.asp?logID=241
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