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Adobe Flash Player "Button" Remote Code Execution

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Disclosed
Oct 28, 2010
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in the handling of certain SWF movies
within versions 9.x and 10.0 of Adobe Flash Player. Adobe Reader and Acrobat
are also vulnerable, as are any other applications that may embed Flash player.

Arbitrary code execution is achieved by embedding a specially crafted Flash
movie into a PDF document. An AcroJS heap spray is used in order to ensure
that the memory used by the invalid pointer issue is controlled.

NOTE: This module uses a similar DEP bypass method to that used within the
adobe_libtiff module. This method is unlikely to work across various
Windows versions due to a hardcoded syscall number.

Authors

Unknown
Haifei Li
jduck [email protected]

Platform

Windows

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_flashplayer_button
    msf exploit(adobe_flashplayer_button) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(adobe_flashplayer_button) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(adobe_flashplayer_button) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(adobe_flashplayer_button) > exploit
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