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CVE-2009-1868

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.246.0 and 10.x before 10.0.32.18, and Adobe AIR before 1.5.2

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.246.0 and 10.x before 10.0.32.18, and Adobe AIR before 1.5.2, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving URL parsing.

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 0.18527
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  • EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
  • EPSS percentile: top 5% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • Public exploit or PoC is available
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules1 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
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Affected Products & Versions

5
adobe air<= 1.5.1
adobe airall versions
adobe flash player<= 10.0.22.87
adobe flash playerall versions
adobe flexall versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

1
dosAdobe Flash Player 10.0.22 / AIR - URI Parsing Heap Buffer Overflow (PoC)verified
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Sigma Hunt Rules

1
Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.
producthighFlash Player Update from Suspicious Location
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Scoring & Timeline

9.3
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD31 Jul 2009 · 07:30 PM
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Vendor Advisories

2
rhsaRHSA-2009:1188Critical
rhsaRHSA-2009:1189Critical
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References & Sources

19
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
http://osvdb.org/56776
http://secunia.com/advisories/36193
http://secunia.com/advisories/36374
http://secunia.com/advisories/36701
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