Internet Bug Bounty · Report #47227
Race condition in workers may cause an exploitable double free by abusing bytearray.compress()
Validstatus
5upvotes
25 Mar 2015disclosed
How it was found
The issue occurs while sharing a bytearray between two workers. If one worker calls bytearray.compress() while the other uses that bytearray, Flash does not correctly handle the race and may double free the array.
Identified as CVE-2015-0312, and reported to Adobe via Chrome VRP: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-03.html
Original report with exploit for Chrome: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=436022