CVE-2016-1002: Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.577 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 21.0.0.176…

PriorityP266high8.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EXPLOIT

EPSS

20.63%

97.2th percentile

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.577 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 21.0.0.176, Adobe AIR SDK before 21.0.0.176, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 21.0.0.176 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0960, CVE-2016-0961, CVE-2016-0962, CVE-2016-0986, CVE-2016-0989, CVE-2016-0992, and CVE-2016-1005.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	air	<= 20.0.0.233	—
adobe	air_desktop_runtime	<= 20.0.0.260	—
adobe	air_sdk	<= 20.0.0.260	—
adobe	air_sdk_compiler	<= 20.0.0.260	—
adobe	flash_player	<= 20.0.0.306	—
adobe	flash_player	<= 11.2.202.569	—
adobe	flash_player_desktop_runtime	<= 20.2.2.306	—
samsung	x14j_firmware	—	—

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

urlhttps://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/39608.zip↗

→CVE-2016-1002 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player's shape rendering code; monitor for Flash Player processes crashing or exhibiting abnormal behavior during shape/vector rendering operations. ↗
→Vulnerable versions of Adobe Flash Player to flag: before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows/OS X, before 11.2.202.577 on Linux; Adobe AIR before 21.0.0.176. ↗

·The CVE referenced in the NVD source (CVE-2016-0962) covers a family of related Flash memory corruption vulnerabilities; CVE-2016-1002 is listed as one of the sibling CVEs sharing the same affected version ranges and attack surface. ↗
·The exploit PoC originates from Google Project Zero issue #721; the crash is triggered via a fuzz case in shape rendering, meaning the exact exploit vector is fuzzer-generated and may vary in the wild. ↗

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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