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CVE-2016-0973

Use After Free

Published: Feb 10, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
6.8 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0973
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html

Use-after-free vulnerability in the URLRequest object implementation 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 a URLLoader.load call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, CVE-2016-0983, and CVE-2016-0984.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Flash_playerAdobe*11.2.202.559 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryRedHatflash-plugin-0:11.2.202.569-1.el5*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryRedHatflash-plugin-0:11.2.202.569-1.el6_7*
Adobe-flashpluginUbuntuprecise*
Adobe-flashpluginUbuntutrusty*
Adobe-flashpluginUbuntuwily*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntuprecise*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntutrusty*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntuupstream*
Flashplugin-nonfreeUbuntuwily*

Potential Mitigations

References

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