CVE-2015-0310 on CISA KEV

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.262 and 14.x through 16.x before 16.0.0.287 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.438 on Linux does not properly restrict discovery of memory addresses, which allows attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism on Windows, and have an unspe

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.262 and 14.x through 16.x before 16.0.0.287 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.438 on Linux does not properly restrict discovery of memory addresses, which allows attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism on Windows, and have an unspecified impact on other platforms, via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in January 2015.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

03Notes & references

• security.gentoo.org — http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-02.xml
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72261
• secunia.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/62660
• secunia.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/62740
• www.securitytracker.com — http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031609
• helpx.adobe.com — http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-02.html
• secunia.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/62452
• secunia.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/62601

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
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06Detection

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