VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7858

high
Published 2016-11-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/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 versions 23.0.0.205 and earlier, 11.2.202.643 and earlier have an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

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
redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.0 Affected —
5.0 Affected —
linux Linux kernel Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected —
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected —
windows Windows Fixed 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
r2 Not affected —
1607 Not affected —
1511 Not affected —
- Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeflash_player_for_linux{"endIncluding":"11.2.202.643"}
adobe adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"23.0.0.205"}

References

CWEs

CWE-416

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

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