
It was a busy day yesterday, with Adobe issuing four emergency patches for their Flash Player, including one for a zero-day being actively exploited in the wild. Adobe has indicated that CVE-2018-5002 was discovered being used in limited, targeted attacks on Windows users in the wild. The attacks use Microsoft Office documents embedded with malicious Flash Player content.
Three of the four CVEs were found through our Zero Day Initiative:
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We issued an out-of-band Digital Vaccine (DV) package to address these vulnerabilities:
Bulletin # | CVE # | Digital Vaccine Filter |
APSB18-19 | CVE-2018-4945 | 32133: HTTP: Adobe Flash MovieClip object Memory Corruption Vulnerability (ZDI-18-570) |
APSB18-19 | CVE-2018-5000 | 32134: HTTP: Adobe Flash RTMP Information Disclosure Vulnerability (ZDI-18-569) |
APSB18-19 | CVE-2018-5001 | 32132: HTTP: Adobe Flash ApplyFilter Method Information Disclosure Vulnerability (ZDI-18-568) |
APSB18-19 | CVE-2018-5002 | 32131: HTTP: Adobe Flash XLSX li8 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
Zero-Day Filters
There are 16 new zero-day filters covering 10 vendors in this week’s Digital Vaccine (DV) package. A number of existing filters in this week’s DV package were modified to update the filter description, update specific filter deployment recommendation, increase filter accuracy and/or optimize performance. You can browse the list of published advisories and upcoming advisories on the Zero Day Initiative website. You can also follow the Zero Day Initiative on Twitter @thezdi and on their blog.
Adobe (1)
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Advantech (4)
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Apple (2)
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Foxit (2)
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Microsoft (1)
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Novell (1)
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OMRON (1)
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Spotify (1)
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Trend Micro (1)
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WECON (2)
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