CVE-2010-2173

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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, might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to an "invalid pointer vulnerability" and the newclass (0x58) operator, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2174.

Affected products

Adobe Air: through 1.5.3.9130; 1.0, 1.1, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3
Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: through 10.0.45.2; 9.0.16, 9.0.20, 9.0.20.0, 9.0.28, 9.0.28.0, 9.0.31 (+48)
Macromedia Flash Player: 5.0, 5.0.30.0, 5.0.41.0, 5.0.42.0, 5.0.58.0

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/2010-06/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40144
http://secunia.com/advisories/40545
http://secunia.com/advisories/43026
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-09.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024085
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024086
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html

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