CVE-2008-4546
Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610, allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and browser crash) by returning a different response when an HTTP request is sent a second time, as demonstrated by two responses that provide SWF files with different SWF version numbers.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 65.9% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4527)
- Published
- October 14, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4527 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- adobe / flash player
- adobe / flash player
- adobe / flash player
- adobe / flash player
References
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02273751
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32759
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40545
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43026
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-09.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4401
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024085
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024086
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html
- http://www.mochimedia.com/~matthew/flashcrash/(Exploit)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0464.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0470.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496929/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31537
- http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/security/2010/TLSA-2010-19j.txt
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-162A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1421
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1432
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1434
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1453
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1482
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1522
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1793
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0192
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45630
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16302
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7187
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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