CVE-2016-6984 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Adobe Flash Player

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write15 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.5%
top 12.38%
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

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 or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4273, CVE-2016-6982, CVE-2016-6983, CVE-2016-6985, CVE-2016-6986, CVE-2016-6989, and CVE-2016-6990.

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-j26g-8w7v-894c: Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2016-6984: Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-10-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-6984: Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2016-10-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

8
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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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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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-32↗2016-10-11
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

2
Unit42
Palo Alto Networks Researcher Discovers Four Critical Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player↗2016-10-20
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Unit42
Palo Alto Networks Researcher Discovers Four Critical Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player↗2016-10-20
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💬Community

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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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