Buffer overflow in Adobe Shockwave Player

CVE-2011-2421

Dirapi.dll in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.6.1.629 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted .dir media file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.043 (90.1th 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)

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

References

psirt@adobe.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
psirt@adobe.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)