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CVE-2016-0983

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-02-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability 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 unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0973, CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, and CVE-2016-0984.

Affected products

• Adobe Air Desktop Runtime: through 20.0.0.233
• Adobe Air Sdk: through 20.0.0.233
• Adobe Air Sdk & Compiler: through 20.0.0.233
• Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: through 11.2.202.559; through 18.0.0.326; through 20.0.0.272; through 20.0.0.286
• Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime: through 20.0.0.286

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0166.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034970
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-07
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.html

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