Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player ActiveX SwDir.dll denial of service
| macromedia-swdir-dos (31160) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Macromedia Shockwave Player is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a vulnerability in the SwDir.dll ActiveX control. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the victim's browser to crash, if the attacker could persuade the victim to visit a malicious Web page that passes specially-crafted arguments to the ShockW.swURL() method.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 4 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
| Temporal Score: | 3.4 |
| Exploitability: | Proof-Of-Concept |
| Remediation Level: | Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: | Uncorroborated |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of May 1, 2013.
References:
- Adobe Web site: Adobe Shockwave Player.
- BID-22067: Macromedia Shockwave 10 SWDIR.DLL ActiveX Control Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
- BID-22842: Macromedia Shockwave 10 SWDIR.DLL Multiple ActiveX Control Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-6885: An ActiveX control in SwDir.dll in Macromedia Shockwave 10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer 7 crash) via a long string in the swURL attribute.
- OSVDB ID: 36005: Macromedia Shockwave SwDir.dll Multiple Property Remote Overflow
- OSVDB ID: 37510: Macromedia Shockwave ActiveX (SwDir.dll) swURL Attribute Remote DoS
Platforms Affected:
- Macromedia Shockwave 10
Reported:
Dec 29, 2006
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