CVE-2010-3653

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 74.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-10-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The Director module (dirapi.dll) in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.615 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Director movie with a crafted rcsL chunk containing a field whose value is used as a pointer offset, as exploited in the wild in October 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Adobe Shockwave Player: through 11.5.8.612; 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 (+33)

References

http://www.abysssec.com/blog/2010/10/adobe-shockwave-player-rcsl-chunk-memory-corruption-0day/
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-25.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15296
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/402231
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44291
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024635
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2752
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62688
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11285
http://www.abysssec.com/blog/2010/10/adobe-shockwave-player-rcsl-chunk-memory-corruption-0day/
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-25.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15296

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