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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2010-2582

High
9.3/10

Summary

An unspecified function in TextXtra.x32 in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.615 does not properly reallocate a buffer when processing a DEMX chunk in a Director file, which allows remote attackers to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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