CVE-2016-0965: 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…

PriorityP265high8.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EXPLOIT

EPSS

20.59%

97.2th percentile

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 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0964, CVE-2016-0966, CVE-2016-0967, CVE-2016-0968, CVE-2016-0969, CVE-2016-0970, CVE-2016-0972, CVE-2016-0976, CVE-2016-0977, CVE-2016-0978, CVE-2016-0979, CVE-2016-0980, and CVE-2016-0981.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	air_desktop_runtime	<= 20.0.0.233	—
adobe	air_sdk	<= 20.0.0.233	—
adobe	air_sdk_compiler	<= 20.0.0.233	—
adobe	flash_player	<= 11.2.202.559	—
adobe	flash_player	<= 18.0.0.326	—
adobe	flash_player	<= 20.0.0.272	—
adobe	flash_player	<= 20.0.0.286	—
adobe	flash_player_desktop_runtime	<= 20.0.0.286	—

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

urlhttps://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/39460.zip↗

→CVE-2016-0965 is triggered via a malformed Flash file causing an out-of-bounds read of an image object; inspect SWF files where embedded image width/height/metadata fields contain anomalous or oversized values that could be interpreted as pointers. ↗
→Flag Adobe Flash Player versions below 18.0.0.329 (Windows/OS X), below 11.2.202.569 (Linux), and 19.x/20.x below 20.0.0.306 as vulnerable targets for this memory corruption / out-of-bounds read vulnerability. ↗
→Flag Adobe AIR (including SDK and SDK & Compiler) versions before 20.0.0.260 as vulnerable to the same memory corruption vector. ↗

·The vulnerability vector is described as 'unspecified vectors' in the NVD advisory, limiting precise rule specificity beyond the out-of-bounds image read primitive described in the PoC. ↗
·CVE-2016-0965 is one of 14 distinct memory corruption vulnerabilities patched simultaneously in the same Flash/AIR release; detections should differentiate by PoC behavior (out-of-bounds image read with null image bits but crafted width/height) rather than version alone. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.09.3CRITICALAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv8.8HIGH

vendor_redhat8.8HIGH

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