CVE-2010-3653: Adobe Shockwave Player

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 74.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Director module (dirapi.dll) in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.615 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Director movie with a crafted rcsL chunk containing a field whose value is used as a pointer offset, as exploited in the wild in October 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Adobe Shockwave Player: up to and including 11.5.8.612; version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; …

Published 2010-10-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.