Adobe · Flash Player
CVE-2016-7892
Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Exploited in attacks
High 8.8 Attack chance: 19%
What it is
Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier have an exploitable use after free vulnerability in the TextField class. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
CISA: Adobe Flash Player has an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability in the TextField class.
What to do
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
Deadline for US federal agencies: April 15, 2022
- Added to the CISA list
- March 25, 2022
- Published
- December 15, 2016
- Severity
- High 8.8 CVSS 3.1
- Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS)
- 19% in the top 2.7% of all known vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- More details
- NVD · CVE.org · CISA
All references (8)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00064.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-154
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-17
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2947.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00112.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037442
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-39.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94877
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| Added | Vulnerability | Product | Severity | Attack chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2024 | Incorrect Default Permissions | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 11% |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Code Execution | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 11% |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Integer Underflow Vulnerablity | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 99.9% |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Double Free Vulnerablity | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 25% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Memory Corruption | Flash Player | High 7.8 | 83% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Unspecified | Flash Player | High 7.8 | 64% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Memory Corruption | Flash Player | High 7.8 | 91% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) | Flash Player | Medium 6.1 | 6.2% |
Sources: Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (CISA, public domain), CVE records (cve.org) and EPSS (FIRST). The chance of attacks is the EPSS estimate that someone will try to exploit the flaw in the next 30 days.