CVE-2010-2873: Adobe Shockwave Player

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.8.612 does not properly validate offset values in the rcsL RIFF chunks of (1) .DIR and (2) .DCR Director movies, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted movie.

Affected products

• Adobe Shockwave Player: up to and including 11.5.7.609; version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; …

Published 2010-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.