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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2017-2935 in the critical feed json

Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.186 and earlier have an exploitable heap overflow vulnerability when processing the Flash Video containe…

published 2017-01-11 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-12076

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
29.9%
EPSS 29.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.186 and earlier have an exploitable heap overflow vulnerability when processing the Flash Video container file format. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 24.0.0.194ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 24.0.0.194ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2935

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 24.0.0.194-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0057

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 24.0.0.194-155.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0108-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-2935 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB17-02

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 flash-plugin
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.194-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.194-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.194-1.el6_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0057

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-41612)

Exploit prediction

29.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-41612 Adobe Flash - AVC Header Slicing Heap Overflow dos, 2017-03-15

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.