⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2022-05-25. Federal agencies required to patch by 2022-06-15. Required action: The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use..

CVE-2016-0984 — Use After Free in Adobe AIR Desktop Runtime

CWE-416 — Use After Free15 documents10 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
75.9%
top 1.08%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2022-05-25
Due 2022-06-15
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Affected products
5
Adobe AIR Desktop RuntimeAdobe AIR SDKAdobe AIR SDK Compiler+2 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 10
KEV addedMay 25
KEV dueJun 15
CISA Required Action: The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Description

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.

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/air_sdk_compiler20.0.0.233
▶NVDadobe/air_sdk20.0.0.233

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-wg97-qrh5-p5pr: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2022-05-17
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Project0
Life After the Isolated Heap - Project Zero↗2016-03-01
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CVEList
CVE-2016-0984: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-02-10
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OSV
CVE-2016-0984: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-02-10
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VulnCheck
Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability↗2016
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💥Exploits & PoCs

1
Exploit-DB
Adobe Flash - Sound.loadPCMFromByteArray Dangling Pointer↗2016-02-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

7
CISA
Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability↗2022-05-25
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-04↗2016-02-09
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-04↗2016-02-09
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-04↗2016-02-09
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-04↗2016-02-09
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-04↗2016-02-09
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