CVE-2010-4188: Adobe Shockwave Player

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The dirapi.dll module in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.620 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Director movie with an IFWV chunk with a size field of 0, which is used in the calculation of a file offset and causes invalid data to be used as a loop counter, triggering a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2587 and CVE-2010-2588.

Affected products

• Adobe Shockwave Player: up to and including 11.5.9.615; version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; …

Published 2011-02-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.