CVE-2008-5362 (GCVE-0-2008-5362)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-08 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The DefineConstantPool action in the ActionScript 2 virtual machine in Adobe Flash Player 10.x before 10.0.12.36 and 9.x before 9.0.151.0, and Adobe AIR before 1.5, accepts an untrusted input value for a "constant count," which allows remote attackers to read sensitive data from process memory via a crafted PDF file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
9 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498561/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
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| http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/a… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/34226 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4692 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-23.xml | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
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Date Public
2008-11-21 00:00
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],
"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
},
"redhat_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "Important",
"current_release_date": "2026-06-28T12:01:35+00:00",
"cve": "CVE-2008-5362",
"id": "CVE-2008-5362",
"initial_release_date": "2008-11-17T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:fixed": "10",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "security flaw",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2008/cve-2008-5362.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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