Adobe Flash Player AVM2 newfunction Memory Corruption RCE
CVE-2010-1297 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player’s handling of crafted SWF content, specifically related to authplay.dll and the ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) newfunction instruction. Affected products include Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64; Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610; and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3 and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, due to embedded Flash support. By supplying malicious SWF content, a remote attacker can trigger memory corruption that can result in arbitrary code execution or application crash. The vulnerability was exploited in the wild in June 2010, and public exploit code was noted as available.
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Exploits
No valid public exploits. Mallory filtered out 2 candidates as fakes, detection scripts, or README-only repos.
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Affected products & vendors
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Recent activity
3 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A specific vulnerability included in multiple exploit kits according to the table.
A zero-day exploit used by the GREF threat group in 2010 as part of watering hole and targeted attack activity.
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Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.