CVE-2016-0984

HIGH KEV

Adobe Flash Player <18.0.0.329, 19.x, 20.x - Use After Free

Title source: llm

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2016-0984 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added May 25, 2022. EIP tracks 1 public exploit from researchers including Google Security Research.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a dangling pointer vulnerability in Adobe Flash's `loadPCMFromByteArray` method. By triggering an exception during memory handling, it causes a pointer to be freed prematurely, allowing arbitrary memory reads via the `extract` method.

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Google Security Research · textdosmultiple

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39462

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This exploit leverages a dangling pointer vulnerability in Adobe Flash's `loadPCMFromByteArray` method. By triggering an exception during memory handling, it causes a pointer to be freed prematurely, allowing arbitrary memory reads via the `extract` method.

Classification

Working Poc 90%

Attack Type

Rce

Complexity

Moderate

Reliability

Reliable

Target: Adobe Flash Player (versions affected by CVE-2016-0984)

No auth needed

Prerequisites: Victim must have vulnerable Adobe Flash Player installed · Attacker must deliver the malicious SWF file to the victim

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