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Sid
3-16220

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

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

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Detailed Information:
Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.2.602 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web page that triggers memory corruption, related to an "invalid string length vulnerability." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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Affected Systems:
Adobe Shockwave Player 1.0
Adobe Shockwave Player 10.1.0.11
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.0.0.456
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.0.595
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.0.596
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.1.601
Adobe Shockwave Player 2.0
Adobe Shockwave Player 3.0
Adobe Shockwave Player 4.0
Adobe Shockwave Player 5.0
Adobe Shockwave Player 6.0
Adobe Shockwave Player 8.0
Adobe Shockwave Player 8.5.1
Adobe Shockwave Player 9

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Attack Scenarios:


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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-2009-3466:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-3466
  
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