CVE-2016-6981 — Use After Free in Adobe Flash Player

CWE-416 — Use After Free7 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.9%
top 13.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Adobe Flash PlayerAdobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime
Timeline
PublishedOct 13
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.382 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.637 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-6987.

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_player23.0.0.162+2

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-72xh-4q4w-qmf4: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2016-6981: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-10-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-6981: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-10-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-32↗2016-10-11
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-32↗2016-10-11
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4273 CVE-2016-4286 CVE-2016-6981 CVE-2016-6982 CVE-2016-6983 CVE-2016-6984 CVE-2016-6985 CVE-2016-6986 CVE-2016-6987 CVE-2016-6989 CVE-2016-6990 CVE-2016-6992 flash-plugin: multiple code exec↗2016-10-12
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