Adobe Shockwave Player Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities (APSB12-23)

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Affected Systems:
Adobe Shockwave Player <= 11.5.7. 609
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 56181

Adobe Shockwave Player is a plug-in software for playing web pages created by Director Shockwave Studio.

Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.6.637 and earlier versions have the Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause DOS.

<* Source: Will Dormann
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Adobe
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.adobe.com/support/security/