CVE-2016-4137

high
Published 2016-06-16 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
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
9.8

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.242 and earlier, as used in the Adobe Flash libraries in Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11 and Microsoft Edge, has unknown impact and attack vectors, a different vulnerability than other CVEs listed in MS16-083.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40089 dos multiple verified
Google Security Research ยท 2016-07-11

Adobe Flash - LMZA Property Decoding Heap Corruption

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

OS impact

redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.0 Affected โ€”
5.0 Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected โ€”
13.1 Affected โ€”
12 Affected โ€”
โ€” Affected โ€”
linux Linux kernel Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected โ€”
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected โ€”
windows Windows Fixed 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
1511 Not affected โ€”
- Not affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"21.0.0.242"}
adobe adobeflash_player_desktop_runtime{"endIncluding":"21.0.0.242"}
adobe adobeflash_player-

References

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

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