adobe flash-player CVE-2010-1297 vulnerability in Adobe and Other Products
Published on June 8, 2010

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Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64; Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610; and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3, and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted SWF content, related to authplay.dll and the ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) newfunction instruction, as exploited in the wild in June 2010.

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Adobe Flash Player contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute code or cause denial-of-service.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 22, 2022: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2010-1297 can be exploited with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 1.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?

The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.

CVE-2010-1297 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2010-1297

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What versions are vulnerable to CVE-2010-1297?

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