Memory Address Discovery Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player

Memory Address Discovery Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player

CVE-2015-3040 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux does not properly restrict discovery of memory addresses, which allows attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0357.

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