CVE-2010-2881: Adobe Shockwave Player

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IML32.dll in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.8.612 does not properly parse .dir files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a malformed file containing an invalid value, as demonstrated by a value at position 0x24C0 of a certain file.

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.