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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-0996: Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-0996: Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the setInterval method in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.577 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 21.0.0.176, Adobe AIR SDK before 21.0.0.176, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 21.0.0.176 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0987, CVE-2016-0988, CVE-2016-0990, CVE-2016-0991, CVE-2016-0994, CVE-2016-0995, CVE-2016-0997, CVE-2016-0998, CVE-2016-0999, and CVE-2016-1000.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-plugins-adobe-flash

References

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