Vulnerability in Adobe Air

CVE-2008-5361

The ActionScript 2 virtual machine in Adobe Flash Player 10.x before 10.0.12.36 and 9.x before 9.0.151.0, and Adobe AIR before 1.5, does not verify a member element's size when performing (1) DefineConstantPool, (2) ActionJump, (3) ActionPush, (4) ActionTry, and unspecified other actions, which allows remote attackers to read sensitive data from process memory via a crafted PDF file.

EPSS: 0.038 (88.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

  • cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUNALERT, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2008-5361?
CVE-2008-5361 is a vulnerability in Adobe Air, classified under CWE-399. Published 2008-12-08.
Is CVE-2008-5361 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.