PT-2008-6487 · Adobe · Air+1

Riley Hassell · Published 2008-12-08 · Updated 2018-11-02 · CVE-2008-5363

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Adobe Flash Player versions 10.x prior to 10.0.12.36 Adobe Flash Player versions 9.x prior to 9.0.151.0 Adobe AIR versions prior to 1.5

Description The issue concerns the ActionScript 2 virtual machine, which fails to validate character elements during retrieval from the dictionary data structure. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, via a crafted PDF file.

Recommendations For Adobe Flash Player versions 10.x prior to 10.0.12.36, update to version 10.0.12.36 or later. For Adobe Flash Player versions 9.x prior to 9.0.151.0, update to version 9.0.151.0 or later. For Adobe AIR versions prior to 1.5, update to version 1.5 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5363

RHSA-2008:0945

RHSA-2008:0980

Affected Products

Air

Flash Player

References · 11

• http://adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-22.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-23.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5363 · Security Note
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-248586-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/498561/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://isecpartners.com/advisories/2008-01-flash.txt · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33390 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5363 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34226 · Note
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-020.htm · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4692 · Note