National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0556
Original release date:02/10/2011
Last revised:02/17/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The Font Xtra.x32 module in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.620 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted PFR1 chunk that leads to an unexpected sign extension and an invalid pointer dereference, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0569.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-01.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: shocwave-player-fontxtra-code-exec(65258)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0335
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1025056
External Source: BID
Name: 46328
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20110209 TPTI-11-03: Adobe Shockwave Font Xtra String Decoding Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
External Source: MISC
Name: http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/advisory/TPTI-11-03
