Buffer overflow in Adobe Shockwave Player
CVE-2010-4188
The dirapi.dll module in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.620 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Director movie with an IFWV chunk with a size field of 0, which is used in the calculation of a file offset and causes invalid data to be used as a loop counter, triggering a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2587 and CVE-2010-2588.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.066 (93.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Adobe Shockwave_player — versions 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- psirt@adobe.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
- psirt@adobe.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- psirt@adobe.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- psirt@adobe.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- psirt@adobe.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- psirt@adobe.com (x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2010-4188?
- CVE-2010-4188 is a vulnerability in Adobe Shockwave Player, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2011-02-10.
- Is CVE-2010-4188 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.