CVE-2016-0973 — Use After Free in Adobe AIR Desktop Runtime

CWE-416 — Use After Free11 documents6 sources

Severity

8.8HIGHNVD

EPSS

5.1%

top 10.21%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Adobe AIR Desktop Runtime Adobe AIR SDK Adobe AIR SDK Compiler +2 more

Timeline

PublishedFeb 10

Latest updateMay 17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the URLRequest object implementation 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 a URLLoader.load call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, CVE-2016-0983, and CVE-2016-0984.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDadobe/flash_player11.2.202.559+3

▶NVDadobe/flash_player_desktop_runtime20.0.0.286

▶NVDadobe/air_sdk_compiler20.0.0.233

▶NVDadobe/air_sdk20.0.0.233

▶NVDadobe/air_desktop_runtime20.0.0.233

Patches

Patch: helpx.adobe.com ↗Patch: helpx.adobe.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-wqvx-9j6j-hmvp: Use-after-free vulnerability in the URLRequest object implementation in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2022-05-17

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CVEList

CVE-2016-0973: Use-after-free vulnerability in the URLRequest object implementation in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-02-10

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OSV

CVE-2016-0973: Use-after-free vulnerability in the URLRequest object implementation in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-02-10

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