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TITLE:
Adobe Shockwave Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46667

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-09

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DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Shockwave
Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

1) An error in DIRAPI.dll when parsing Director file headers can be
exploited to corrupt memory.

2) An error in TextXtra.x32 when parsing Director files can be
exploited to corrupt memory.

3) An error in DIRAPI.dll when parsing rcsl chunks within Director
files can be exploited to corrupt memory.

4) Multiple errors in TextXtra.x32 can be exploited to cause
heap-based buffer overflows.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of
arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 11.6.1.629 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 11.6.3.633.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1, 3) instruder, Code Audit Labs.
2) Pablo Santamaria, Core Security Technologies.
4) Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Adobe (APSB11-27):
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-27.html

Code Audit Labs (CAL-2011-0052, CAL-2011-0054):
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-11/0109.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-11/0110.html

Core Security Technologies (CORE-2011-0825):
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/adobe-shockwave-textxtra-vulnerability

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