{"id":"CVE-2010-3653","published":"2010-10-26T17:00:00Z","modified":"2024-08-07T03:18:53Z","title":"The Director module (dirapi.dll) in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.615 allows remote attackers to execute…","vendor":null,"product":null,"tier":"core","eol":null,"description":{"text":"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.","provenance":"source","from":"CVE.org"},"summary":{"text":"The Director module (dirapi.dll) in Adobe Shockwave Player contains a memory-corruption flaw in how it parses the rcsL chunk of Director movie files, where an attacker-controlled field value is used as a pointer offset. 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