CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-0973
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-02-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the URLRequest object implementation in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.329 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.306 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.569 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.260, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.260, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.260 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a URLLoader.load call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, CVE-2016-0983, and CVE-2016-0984.
Affected configurations
• adobe flash player (<= 11.2.202.559)
• adobe flash player desktop runtime (<= 20.0.0.286)
• adobe flash player (<= 18.0.0.326)
• adobe flash player (<= 20.0.0.272)
• adobe flash player (<= 20.0.0.286)
• adobe air desktop runtime (<= 20.0.0.233)
• adobe air sdk (<= 20.0.0.233)
• adobe air sdk \& compiler (<= 20.0.0.233)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0166.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034970 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-161/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-07 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0166.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034970 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-161/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-07 Third Party Advisory