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
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.066 (93.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.066 · newest: 0.066 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Adobe Shockwave Player — versions 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0335 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-01.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/46319 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516332/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/advisory/TPTI-11-01
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.