CVE-2015-8642 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8642?

CVE-2015-8642 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Adobe Air, published on 28 Dec 2015. 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 18.0.0.324 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.267 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.559 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.233, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.233, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.233 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8634, CVE-2015-8635, CVE-2015-8638, CVE-2015-8639, CVE-2015-8640, CVE-2015-8641, CVE-2015-8643, CVE-2015-8646, CVE-2015-8647, CVE-2015-8648, CVE-2015-8649, and CVE-2015-8650.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8642?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2015-8642?

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-2015-8642 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8642 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-whmw-g3g3-wh9q, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8642.