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Adobe Shockwave Player Font Processing Buffer Overflow

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Adobe Shockwave Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error when parsing embedded fonts. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted Shockwave file. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. Version 11.5.6.606 is affected.

 

You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/89444/secunia-aspfp.txt

Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/89444/Adobe-Shockwave-Player-Font-Processing-Buffer-Overflow.html

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