CVE-2008-5363

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

08/12/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

The ActionScript 2 virtual machine in Adobe Flash Player 10.x before 10.0.12.36 and 9.x before 9.0.151.0, and Adobe AIR before 1.5, does not validate character elements during retrieval from the dictionary data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted PDF file.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air::::::::		1.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player::::::::	9.0.16.0 (including)	9.0.151.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player::::::::	10 (including)	10.0.12.36 (excluding)

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CVE-2008-5363

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools