Macromedia Flash Player up to 6.0.47.0 SWF File denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Macromedia Flash Player up to 6.0.47.0. It has been rated as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the component SWF File Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2002-1881. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Macromedia Flash Player up to 6.0.47.0 (Multimedia Player Software). This issue affects an unknown function of the component SWF File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Macromedia Flash Player 4.0 r12 through 6.0.47.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (web browser crash) via malformed content in a Flash Shockwave (.SWF) file, as demonstrated by by ROT13 encoding the body of the file but not the headers.

The weakness was presented 12/31/2002 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-1881 since 06/29/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (9843) and SecurityFocus (BID 5445†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Multimedia Player Software

Vendor

• Macromedia

Name

• Flash Player

Version

• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.0.5
• 6.0.6
• 6.0.7
• 6.0.8
• 6.0.9
• 6.0.10
• 6.0.11
• 6.0.12
• 6.0.13
• 6.0.14
• 6.0.15
• 6.0.16
• 6.0.17
• 6.0.18
• 6.0.19
• 6.0.20
• 6.0.21
• 6.0.22
• 6.0.23
• 6.0.24
• 6.0.25
• 6.0.26
• 6.0.27
• 6.0.28
• 6.0.29
• 6.0.30
• 6.0.31
• 6.0.32
• 6.0.33
• 6.0.34
• 6.0.35
• 6.0.36
• 6.0.37
• 6.0.38
• 6.0.39
• 6.0.40
• 6.0.41
• 6.0.42
• 6.0.43
• 6.0.44
• 6.0.45
• 6.0.46
• 6.0.47.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: http://www.macromedia.com/

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