CVE-2008-4546

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 65.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-10-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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 remote web servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and browser crash) by returning a different response when an HTTP request is sent a second time, as demonstrated by two responses that provide SWF files with different SWF version numbers.

Affected products

Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: 9.0.45.0, 9.0.112.0, 9.0.115.0, 10.0.12.10

References

http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02273751
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32759
http://secunia.com/advisories/40545
http://secunia.com/advisories/43026
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-09.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4401
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024085
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024086

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