Buffer overflow in Adobe Shockwave Player

CVE-2011-0556

The Font Xtra.x32 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 crafted PFR1 chunk that leads to an unexpected sign extension and an invalid pointer dereference, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0569.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.043 (90.0th 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)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

psirt@adobe.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
psirt@adobe.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
psirt@adobe.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
psirt@adobe.com (x_refsource_MISC)
psirt@adobe.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
psirt@adobe.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
psirt@adobe.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)