Adobe Flash Player AVM2 newfunction Memory Corruption RCE
CVE-2010-1297 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR, and Adobe Reader/Acrobat components that embed Flash, specifically involving authplay.dll and the ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) handling of the ActionScript newfunction instruction. 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/Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3 and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X are affected. A remote attacker can trigger the flaw using crafted SWF content; malformed use of the AVM2 newfunction instruction can cause an exploitable crash due to memory corruption. The issue was exploited in the wild in June 2010, and public exploit code was available.
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Exploits
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Recent activity
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A specific vulnerability included in multiple exploit kits according to the table.
A zero-day exploit used by the GREF threat group in 2010 as part of watering hole and targeted attack activity.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.