Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Multiple Adobe Shockwave Player Vulnerabilities

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered multiple code execution vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave Player.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Adobe.Shockwave.Multiple.Code.Execution
Released Aug 15, 2012
Users should apply the solution provided by Adobe.

Additional Information

These vulnerabilities can be triggered by opening maliciously crafted dir file that contains malformed field. They could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.

References

• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-17.html
  

• CVE-2012-2043

Acknowledgement

Honggang Ren of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

IPS Subscription

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