CVE-2016-4223 — Type Confusion in Adobe Flash Player

CWE-843 — Type Confusion8 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
5.4%
top 9.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Adobe Flash PlayerAdobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime
Timeline
PublishedJul 13
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.366 and 19.x through 22.x before 22.0.0.209 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.632 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion," a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4224 and CVE-2016-4225.

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 Packages2 packages

▶NVDadobe/flash_player18.0.0.360+2

Patches

Patch: docs.microsoft.com ↗Patch: helpx.adobe.com ↗Patch: docs.microsoft.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-947c-r27r-9gpv: Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2016-4223: Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-07-13
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CVEList
CVE-2016-4223: Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-07-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-25↗2016-07-12
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-25↗2016-07-12
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-25↗2016-07-12
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-25↗2016-07-13
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