Vigil@nce - Adobe Shockwave Player: executing DLL code
May 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can create a malicious DLL, and then put it in the
current directory of Adobe Shockwave Player, in order to execute
code.
Impacted products: Shockwave Player.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 14/03/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Adobe Shockwave Player product uses external shared libraries
(DLL).
However, if the working directory contains a malicious DLL, it is
automatically loaded.
An attacker can therefore create a malicious DLL, and then put it
in the current directory of Adobe Shockwave Player, in order to
execute code.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Adobe-Shockwave-Player-executing-DLL-code-22123