Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 6.0.79, as distributed in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by unloading a Flash object that is currently being accessed by a script, leading to memory corruption, aka a "Movie Unloading Vulnerability."
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
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| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7580 | vdb entry signature broken link |
| http://securitytracker.com/id?1023435 | vdb entry third party advisory broken link |
| http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/204889 | third party advisory us government resource |
| http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-77/ | broken link vendor advisory |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/27105 | broken link third party advisory vendor advisory |
| http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/979267.mspx | patch vendor advisory broken link |