CVE-2017-2991
Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.194 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the h264 codec (related to decompression). Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary
02 Description
Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.194 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the h264 codec (related to decompression). Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 8.66% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Critical. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-02-15 06:11Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 14:09Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-12-02
- Assigning CNA
- adobe
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 739df3c324cfcd5ddc02972d3597635ca524fc85371bcc69e79b38777c52dc93
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com96190http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96190
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201702-20https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-20
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0275http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0275.html
- www.securitytracker.com1037815http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037815
- helpx.adobe.comhttps://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-04.html
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- flashplugin-nonfree Fixed in 24.0.0.221ubuntu0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- flashplugin-nonfree Fixed in 24.0.0.221ubuntu0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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