Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability

[ Why it matters ]Priority signals

• Exploited in the wild: on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since 2022-05-25
• EPSS: 55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (higher than 99% of CVEs)

[ Description ]Official description

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, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, and CVE-2016-0983.

CISA: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR allows attackers to execute code.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

CISA required action (US federal deadline 15 Jun 2022): The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

• Patch on helpx.adobe.comVendor patch or bulletin · NVD · Reference tagged 'Patch' by NVD

[ References ]References

• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.htmlBroken LinkThird Party Advisory
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.htmlBroken LinkThird Party Advisory
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.htmlBroken LinkThird Party Advisory
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.htmlBroken LinkThird Party Advisory
• rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0166.htmlThird Party Advisory
• www.securitytracker.com/id/1034970Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.htmlPatchVendor Advisory
• security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-07Third Party Advisory
• www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39462ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalogUS Government Resource