CVE-2011-0609

Publication date 15 March 2011

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.13 and earlier on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris; 10.1.106.16 and earlier on Android; Adobe AIR 2.5.1 and earlier; and Authplay.dll (aka AuthPlayLib.bundle) in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x through 9.4.2 and 10.x through 10.0.1 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted Flash content, as demonstrated by a .swf file embedded in an Excel spreadsheet, and as exploited in the wild in March 2011.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
acroread	10.10 maverick	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected
	9.10 karmic	Not affected
	8.04 LTS hardy	Not affected
	6.06 LTS dapper	Ignored
adobe-flashplugin	10.10 maverick	Fixed 10.2.153.1-0maverick1
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 10.2.153.1-0lucid1
	9.10 karmic	Fixed 10.2.153.1-0karmic1
	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 10.2.153.1-0hardy1
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release
flashplugin-nonfree	10.10 maverick	Fixed 10.2.153.1ubuntu0.10.10.1
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 10.2.153.1ubuntu0.10.04.1
	9.10 karmic	Fixed 10.2.153.1ubuntu0.9.10.1
	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 10.2.153.1ubuntu0.8.04.2
	6.06 LTS dapper	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

Upstream description: "memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution" upstream says acroread 9.x on UNIX isn't affected

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H