CVE-2009-1868: adobe air

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2009-1868 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in adobe air. EPSS estimates a 21.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 31-07-2009
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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 involving URL parsing.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.