CVE-2014-0573 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2014-0573?

CVE-2014-0573 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Adobe Air, published on 11 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.252 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.223 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.418 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.356, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.356, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.356 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0588 and CVE-2014-8438.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0573?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Adobe Air, Adobe Air Sdk, Adobe Air Sdk \& Compiler, Adobe Flash Player.

How do I fix CVE-2014-0573?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2014-0573 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0573 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Air

• CVE-2016-1010 Adobe Flash Player and AIR Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-8651 Adobe Flash Player Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-8439 Adobe Flash Player Dereferenced Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2012-2034 Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.5
• CVE-2015-8459 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Adobe Air vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-g5jh-8j54-9638, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0573.