Advisory Details

June 14th, 2011

Adobe Shockwave rcsL Trusted Offset Chunk Processing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-11-213
ZDI-CAN-1072

CVE ID CVE-2011-2114
CVSS SCORE 7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS Adobe
AFFECTED PRODUCTS Shockwave Player
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['11346']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of the Adobe Shockwave Player. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of the rcsL RIFF chunk within Director files. When handling specific structures within this chunk, the process trusts an offset and uses it to calculate a pointer value. By modifying this element an attacker can force the application to corrupt memory at a controlled location. This can be leveraged by an attacker to execute arbitrary code under the context of the user running the browser.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS Adobe has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-17.html
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2011-04-01 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2011-06-14 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT Aniway (Aniway.Anyway@gmail.com)
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