CVE-2016-0984
Published on February 10, 2016

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-2016-0983.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR allows attackers to execute code.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 15, 2022: The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2016-0984 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 2.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

What is a Dangling pointer Vulnerability?

Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.

CVE-2016-0984 has been classified to as a Dangling pointer vulnerability or weakness.

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