VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0981

high
Published 2016-02-10 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

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 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0964, CVE-2016-0965, CVE-2016-0966, CVE-2016-0967, CVE-2016-0968, CVE-2016-0969, CVE-2016-0970, CVE-2016-0972, CVE-2016-0976, CVE-2016-0977, CVE-2016-0978, CVE-2016-0979, and CVE-2016-0980.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected —
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected —
windows Windows Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"11.2.202.559"}
adobe adobeflash_player_desktop_runtime{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.286"}
adobe adobeair_desktop_runtime{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.233"}
adobe adobeair_sdk{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.233"}
adobe adobeair_sdk_\&_compiler{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.233"}

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.