Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe AIR, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Adobe AIR Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32772
VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Adobe AIR 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20469/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe AIR, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
1) Multiple unspecified input validation errors in the parsing of SWF
files can be exploited to potentially execute arbitrary code.
2) An unspecified error may allow execution of untrusted JavaScript
with escalated privileges if data is loaded from a malicious source.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.1 and prior.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.
http://get.adobe.com/air
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
1) Riley Hassell and Josh Zelonis, iSEC Partners.
2) Chris Weber, Casaba Security.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-22.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-23.html
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