Adobe Flash Player shared ByteArray Use-After-Free Exploit Update

This module exploits a Use-After-Free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. The method ByteArray::clear does not notify the suscriber when frees the memory assigned to a ByteArray object leaving a dangling pointer that can be later dereferenced.

This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines by enticing unsuspecting users to visit a website serving a specially crafted SWF Flash file.

This vulnerability was found exploited in the wild in February 2015.



This updates adds support for Windows 8 and 8.1.