CVE-2010-2884

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2010-09-13
Bugzilla:
633917: CVE-2010-2884 Adobe Flash: crash or potential arbitrary code execution (APSB10-22)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Adobe Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris and 10.1.92.10 on Android; authplay.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4; and authplay.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in September 2010.

Find out more about CVE-2010-2884 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (flash-plugin) RHSA-2010:0706 2010-09-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (acroread) RHSA-2010:0743 2010-10-06
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras (flash-plugin) RHSA-2010:0706 2010-09-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (acroread) RHSA-2010:0743 2010-10-06
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (flash-plugin) RHSA-2010:0706 2010-09-21

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 flash-plugin Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 acroread Affected

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