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CVE-2016-0984

Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2022-05-25. Federal due date: 2022-06-15.

The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

Impact

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.329 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.306 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.569 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.260, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.260, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.260 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0973, CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, and CVE-2016-0983.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AdobeFlash Player
through 20.0.0.272
through 11.2.202.559
through 18.0.0.326
through 20.0.0.286
AdobeFlash Player Desktop Runtime
through 20.0.0.286
AdobeAir Desktop Runtime
through 20.0.0.233
AdobeAir Sdk
through 20.0.0.233
AdobeAir Sdk \& Compiler
through 20.0.0.233

Weakness classification

CWE-416

References