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Vulnerability: Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player (SB2018120508)

Severity: Critical

Remediation: patch available

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15982

Dated first discovered: 2018-12-05

Brief zero-day description:

Vulnerability exploitation was spotted by several security companies. The attack was detected on November 29, 2018 and seems to be executed by a Ukrainian APT group UA-APT.

360 Core Security dubbed the attack "Operation Poison Needles".

Vulnerability description:

Use-after-free

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing SWF files. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted .swf file, trick the victim to open it and execute arbitrary code on system with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

Note: this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.