Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.194 and earlier have an exploitable heap overflow vulnerability in the h264 decoder routine. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2017-2984 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 8.8 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (flash-plugin) | RHSA-2017:0275 | 2017-02-15 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | flash-plugin | Will not fix |
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