CVE-2010-3976

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2010-11-04
Bugzilla:
649938: flash-plugin: security bulletin APSB10-26

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.289.0 and 10.x before 10.1.102.64 on Windows allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll that is located in the same folder as a file that is processed by Flash Player.

Find out more about CVE-2010-3976 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

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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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 flash-plugin Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 flash-plugin Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 flash-plugin Affected

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