PT-2016-2985 · Adobe+3 · Flash Player+3

Published 2016-10-12 · Updated 2022-11-18 · CVE-2016-6986

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Adobe Flash Player (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by an out-of-bounds memory buffer operation in the Flash Player platform. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption).

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2090

ALT-PU-2016-2091

BDU:2016-02417

CVE-2016-6986

MGASA-2016-0346

RHSA-2016:2057

RHSA-2016_2057

SUSE-SU-2016:2512-1

ZDI-16-568

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Flash Player

Red Hat

Suse

References · 32

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-568 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-02417 · Security Note
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-32.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0346.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0346 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2512-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6986 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6986 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6986 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2057.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6986 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6986 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1004019 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6990 · Note