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.

According to its version number, the instance of Flash Player on the remote host is exposed to an information disclosure vulnerability due a flaw that can allow bypassing of memory randomization mitigations, aiding in further attacks.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201502-02 (Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player.
      Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the       privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, obtain       sensitive information or bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Adobe Flash Player was updated to 11.2.202.440 (bsc#914463) :

  - APSA15-01, CVE-2015-0311

  - Update of flashplayer (executable binary) for i386 is     not available. This binary was disabled.

  - Security update to 11.2.202.438 (bsc#914333) :

  - APSB15-02, CVE-2015-0310

  - Security update to 11.2.202.429 (bsc#913057) :

  - APSB15-01, CVE-2015-0301, CVE-2015-0302, CVE-2015-0303,     CVE-2015-0304, CVE-2015-0305, CVE-2015-0306,     CVE-2015-0307, CVE-2015-0308, CVE-2015-0309.

  - Disable flash player on machines without SSE2     (bnc#856386).

  - Remove outdated README and keep only up-to-date     readme.txt.

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in.

This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player.
These vulnerabilities are detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin APSB15-02, and APSB15-03, listed in the References section.

Multiple flaws were found in the way flash-plugin displayed certain SWF content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content. (CVE-2015-0310, CVE-2015-0311, CVE-2015-0312)

All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 11.2.202.440.

Adobe Flash Player was updated to version 11.2.202.438 to fix one security issue. (APSB15-02, CVE-2015-0310)

For more details refer to the vendor advisory at http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-02.html .

Adobe Flash Player was updated to 11.2.202.438 to fix one security isssue.

http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-02.html (APSB15-02, CVE-2015-0310)

The remote host is missing KB3033408. It is, therefore, affected by a memory leak that can allow bypassing of memory randomization mitigations, aiding in further attacks.

According to its version, the installation of Adobe Flash Player installed on the remote Mac OS X host is equal or prior to 16.0.0.257.
It is, therefore, affected by a memory leak that can allow bypassing of memory randomization mitigations, aiding in further attacks.

According to its version, the installation of Adobe Flash Player installed on the remote Windows host is equal or prior to 16.0.0.257.
It is, therefore, affected by a memory leak that can allow bypassing of memory randomization mitigations, aiding in further attacks.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
8658	Flash Player <= 16.0.0.257 Information Disclosure (APSB15-02)	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients		low
81225	GLSA-201502-02 : Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	critical
81098	openSUSE Security Update : flash-player (openSUSE-SU-2015:0174-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	critical
81036	RHEL 5 / 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2015:0094)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	critical
80995	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : flash-player (SAT Patch Number 10215)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	critical
80984	openSUSE Security Update : flash-player (openSUSE-SU-2015:0110-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	critical
80948	MS KB3033408: Update for Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer	Nessus	Windows	Local	critical
80947	Flash Player For Mac <= 16.0.0.257 Information Disclosure (APSB15-02)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	Local	critical
80946	Flash Player <= 16.0.0.257 Information Disclosure (APSB15-02)	Nessus	Windows	Local	critical

Detections

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CVE-2015-0310

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