Adobe Security Bulletin

Release date: June 9, 2015

Last updated: July 3, 2015

Vulnerability identifier: APSB15-11

Priority: See table below

CVE number: CVE-2015-3096, CVE-2015-3097, CVE-2015-3098, CVE-2015-3099, CVE-2015-3100, CVE-2015-3101, CVE-2015-3102, CVE-2015-3103, CVE-2015-3104, CVE-2015-3105, CVE-2015-3106, CVE-2015-3107, CVE-2015-3108, CVE-2015-5120

Platform: All Platforms

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.  These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.  Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions:

• Users of the Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Windows and Macintosh should update to Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.160.
• Users of the Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release for Windows and Macintosh should update to Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.292. *
• Users of Adobe Flash Player for Linux should update to Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.466.
• Adobe Flash Player installed with Google Chrome will automatically update to version 18.0.0.160 (Windows and Linux) and 18.0.0.161 (Macintosh). 
• Adobe Flash Player installed with Internet Explorer on Windows 8.x will automatically update to version 18.0.0.160.
• Users of the Adobe AIR Desktop Runtime should update to version 18.0.0.143 (Macintosh) and 18.0.0.144 (Windows).
• Users of the Adobe AIR SDK and AIR SDK & Compiler should update to version 18.0.0.143 (Macintosh) and 18.0.0.144 (Windows). 
• Users of Adobe AIR for Android should update to version 18.0.0.143. 

• Adobe Flash Player 17.0.0.188 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh
• Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release 13.0.0.289 and earlier 13.x versions for Windows and Macintosh
• Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.460 and earlier 11.x versions for Linux
• Adobe AIR Desktop Runtime 17.0.0.172 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh
• Adobe AIR SDK and SDK & Compiler 17.0.0.172 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh
• Adobe AIR for Android 17.0.0.144 and earlier versions

To verify the version of Adobe Flash Player installed on your system, access the About Flash Player page, or right-click on content running in Flash Player and select "About Adobe (or Macromedia) Flash Player" from the menu. If you use multiple browsers, perform the check for each browser you have installed on your system.

To verify the version of Adobe AIR installed on your system, follow the instructions in the Adobe AIR TechNote.

Adobe recommends users update their software installations by following the instructions below:

• Adobe recommends users of the Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Windows and Macintosh update to Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.160 by visiting the Adobe Flash Player Download Center or via the update mechanism within the product when prompted.
• Adobe recommends users of the Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release update to version 13.0.0.292 by visiting http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html.*
• Adobe recommends users of Adobe Flash Player for Linux update to Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.466 by visiting the Adobe Flash Player Download Center.
• Adobe Flash Player installed with Google Chrome will be automatically updated to the latest Google Chrome version, which will include Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.160 (Windows and Linux) and 18.0.0.161 (Macintosh).
• Adobe Flash Player installed with Internet Explorer for Windows 8.x will be automatically updated to the latest version, which will include Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.160.
• Adobe recommends users of the Adobe AIR Desktop Runtime update to version 18.0.0.143 (Macintosh) and 18.0.0.144 (Windows) by visiting the Adobe AIR Download Center. 
• Adobe recommends users of the Adobe AIR SDK and AIR SDK & Compiler update to version 18.0.0.143 (Macintosh) and 18.0.0.144 (Windows) by visiting the Adobe AIR Download Center. 
• Adobe recommends users of Adobe AIR for Android update to version 18.0.0.143 by downloading the latest version from the Google Play store. 

*Note: Beginning August 11, 2015, Adobe will update the version of the "Extended Support Release" from Flash Player 13 to Flash Player 18 for Macintosh and Windows.  To stay current with all available security updates, users must install version 18 of the Flash Player Extended Support Release or update to the most recent available version. For full details, please see this blog post. 

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version:

These updates address critical vulnerabilities in the software.

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.  These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.  Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions: 

• Users of the Adobe Flash Player Desktop runtime for Windows and Macintosh should update to Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.160. 
• Users of the Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release for Windows and Macintosh should update to Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.292. 
• Users of Adobe Flash Player for Linux should update to Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.466. 
• Adobe Flash Player installed with Google Chrome will automatically update to version 18.0.0.160 (Windows and Linux) and 18.0.0.161 (Macintosh).  
• Adobe Flash Player installed with Internet Explorer on Windows 8.x will automatically update to version 18.0.0.160. 
• Users of the Adobe AIR Desktop Runtime should update to version 18.0.0.143 (Macintosh) and 18.0.0.144 (Windows). 
• Users of the Adobe AIR SDK and AIR SDK & Compiler should update to version 18.0.0.143 (Macintosh) and 18.0.0.144 (Windows).  
• Users of Adobe AIR for Android should update to version 18.0.0.143.

These updates resolve a vulnerability (CVE-2015-3096) that could be exploited to bypass the fix for CVE-2014-5333. 

These updates improve memory address randomization of the Flash heap for the Window 7 64-bit platform (CVE-2015-3097). 

These updates resolve vulnerabilities that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin-policy and lead to information disclosure (CVE-2015-3098, CVE-2015-3099, CVE-2015-3102).  

These updates resolve a stack overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3100).

These updates resolve a permission issue in the Flash broker for Internet Explorer that could be exploited to perform privilege escalation from low to medium integrity level (CVE-2015-3101).    

These updates resolve an integer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3104).

These updates resolve a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3105, CVE-2015-5120).

These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3103, CVE-2015-3106, CVE-2015-3107).

These updates resolve a memory leak vulnerability that could be used to bypass ASLR (CVE-2015-3108). 

Adobe would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:

• bilou, working with the Chromium Vulnerability Reward Program (CVE-2015-3106)  
• Chris Evans of Google Project Zero (CVE-2015-3097, CVE-2015-3104, CVE-2015-3105, CVE-2015-3108)
• Haifei Li of McAfee Labs IPS Team (CVE-2015-3100) 
• 李普君 (Pujun Li) / PKAV team (pkav.net) (CVE-2015-3102)
• Malte Batram (CVE-2015-3098, CVE-2015-3099)  
• Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero (CVE-2015-3107)
• Tomas Polesovsky (CVE-2015-3096) 
• Wen Guanxing from Venustech ADLAB (CVE-2015-3103)
• Linan Hao of Qihoo 360Vulcan Team (CVE-2015-5120)
  

July 3, 2015: Added reference to CVE-2015-5120, which was resolved in these updates but inadvertently omitted from the bulletin.