CVE-2015-8656

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.268 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.228 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.554 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.204, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.204, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.204 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and memory corruption) via crafted MPEG-4 data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8045, CVE-2015-8047, CVE-2015-8060, CVE-2015-8408, CVE-2015-8416, CVE-2015-8417, CVE-2015-8418, CVE-2015-8419, CVE-2015-8443, CVE-2015-8444, CVE-2015-8451, CVE-2015-8455, CVE-2015-8652, CVE-2015-8654, CVE-2015-8657, CVE-2015-8658, and CVE-2015-8820.

Affected products

Adobe Air: through 19.0.0.241
Adobe Air Desktop Runtime: through 19.0.0.241
Adobe Air Sdk: through 19.0.0.241
Adobe Air Sdk & Compiler: through 19.0.0.241
Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: through 11.2.202.548; through 18.0.0.261; through 19.0.0.245
Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime: through 19.0.0.245

References

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