CVE-2010-1297 Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption

What is CVE-2010-1297?

CVE-2010-1297 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 8 Jun 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64; Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610; and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3, and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted SWF content, related to authplay.dll and the ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) newfunction instruction, as exploited in the wild in June 2010.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1297?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Air, Adobe Flash Player, Opensuse Opensuse, Suse Linux Enterprise.

How do I fix CVE-2010-1297?

Upgrade to a fixed version. US federal agencies must fix it by 22 Jun 2022.

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

Is CVE-2010-1297 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2010-1297 in the wild since at least 8 Jun 2022.

Public exploit code: 2 Metasploit modules and 4 Exploit-DB entries.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

• CVE-2021-28550 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-21017 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0546 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cv7g-qpjc-66p7.