CVE-2009-1869

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 19.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-07-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) abcFile parser 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 an AVM2 file with a large intrf_count value that triggers a dereference of an out-of-bounds pointer.

Affected products

Adobe Air: through 1.5.1; 1.0, 1.01, 1.1, 1.5
Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: through 10.0.22.87; 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.25, 7.0.63, 7.0.69.0, 7.0.70.0 (+24)
Adobe Flex: 3.0

References

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/56777
http://roeehay.blogspot.com/2009/08/advisory-adobe-flash-player-avm2.html
http://roeehay.blogspot.com/2009/08/exploitation-of-cve-2009-1869.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36193
http://secunia.com/advisories/36374
http://secunia.com/advisories/36701
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-04.xml
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266108-1
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3864
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865

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