CVE-2010-3653
highpriority · attend · 73EPSS 0.746 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
The Director module (dirapi.dll) in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.615 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Director movie with a crafted rcsL chunk containing a field whose value is used as a pointer offset, as exploited in the wild in October 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
cvss
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weaknesses
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exploits (3)
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- EDB-15296Adobe Shockwave Player - 'rcsL chunk' Memory Corruptionfunctional · exploit_db
- EDB-16594Adobe Shockwave Player - rcsL Memory Corruption (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
affected products (41)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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references (18)
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- http://www.abysssec.com/blog/2010/10/adobe-shockwave-player-rcsl-chunk-memory-corruption-0day/enisa_euvd
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-25.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15296enisa_euvd
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/402231enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44291enisa_euvd
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024635enisa_euvd
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2752enisa_euvd
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62688enisa_euvd
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