CVE-2009-1864 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2009-1864?

CVE-2009-1864 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Air, published on 31 Jul 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.246.0 and 10.x before 10.0.32.18, and Adobe AIR before 1.5.2, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-1864?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Adobe Air, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Flex.

How do I fix CVE-2009-1864?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2009-1864 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-1864 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Air

• CVE-2016-1010 Adobe Flash Player and AIR Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-8651 Adobe Flash Player Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-8439 Adobe Flash Player Dereferenced Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2012-2034 Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.5
• CVE-2015-8459 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Adobe Air vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-c7gf-53j7-h5w5.