CVE-2016-6931 — Use After Free in Adobe Flash Player

CWE-416 — Use After Free15 documents5 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.7%
top 14.21%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Adobe Flash PlayerAdobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime
Timeline
PublishedSep 14
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.375 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.162 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.635 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4272, CVE-2016-4279, CVE-2016-6921, CVE-2016-6923, CVE-2016-6925, CVE-2016-6926, CVE-2016-6927, CVE-2016-6929, CVE-2016-6930, and CVE-2016-6932.

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_player11.2.202.632+2

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-wm2x-wp62-hmvx: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2016-6931: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-09-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

11
Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-29↗2016-09-13
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-29↗2016-09-13
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-29↗2016-09-13
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-29↗2016-09-13
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-29↗2016-09-13
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-29↗2016-09-13
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