Adobe
Shockwave Player is a multimedia program. User can view movie,
presentations, animations, and play games using this program over web.
It can be installed as browser plug-in to provide such functionality to
the users.
There is memory corruption vulnerability found in it that allows remote
attacker to conduct denial of service attack. This issue lies as
application fails to properly handle special type of .dir file.
Attacker can exploit this issue via hosting the malicious director
(.dir) file on web server and entice the user to view this file. Issue
triggers once the user open this file with respect to the vulnerable
version of the application.
