VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-2873

critical
Published 2010-08-26 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.8.612 does not properly validate offset values in the rcsL RIFF chunks of (1) .DIR and (2) .DCR Director movies, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted movie.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeshockwave_player{"endIncluding":"11.5.7.609"}
adobe adobeshockwave_player1.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player2.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player3.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player4.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player5.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player6.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.196
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.196a
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.204
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.205
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.100
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.103
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.105
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.106
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.321
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.323
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.324
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.325
adobe adobeshockwave_player9
adobe adobeshockwave_player9.0.383
adobe adobeshockwave_player9.0.432
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.0.0.210
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.0.1.004
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.0.11
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.0.011
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.1.016
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.4.020
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.2.0.021
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.2.0.022
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.2.0.023
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.0.0.456
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.0.3.471
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.0.595
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.0.596
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.1.601
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.2.602
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.6.606

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.