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Sid
20050

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in air.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. Complete admin access.

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Detailed Information:
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

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Affected Systems:
adobe air 1.0
adobe air 1.1
adobe air 1.5
adobe air 1.5.1
adobe air 1.5.2
adobe air 1.5.3
adobe air 1.5.3.9130

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Attack Scenarios:
An attacker can host a web site that will return code of their choosing to the object when a victim clicks on a malicious link.

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Ease of Attack:
Simple. Exploits exist.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2009-3793:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-3793
  
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