CVE-2016-0984 on CISA KEV

Use-after-free vulnerability in 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 allows a

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Use-after-free vulnerability in 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 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0973, CVE-2016-0974…

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

03Notes & references

• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39462/
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.html
• www.securitytracker.com — http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034970
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-07
• rhn.redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0166.html
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.html
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.html
• helpx.adobe.com — https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.html
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.html

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

06Detection

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