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high 8.8

CVE-2016-6929 json

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.375 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.162 on Windows and OS X and before…

published 2016-09-14 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7814

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.0%
EPSS 6.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.375 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.162 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.635 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4272, CVE-2016-4279, CVE-2016-6921, CVE-2016-6923, CVE-2016-6925, CVE-2016-6926, CVE-2016-6927, CVE-2016-6930, CVE-2016-6931, and CVE-2016-6932.

Patch / fix

  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 11.2.202.635-1.el5_11
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.635-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1865

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 11.2.202.635-140.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2312-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-6929 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-29

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.635-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.635-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.635-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.635-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.635-1.el6_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1865

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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