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CVE-2016-0981 json

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 be…

published 2016-02-10 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-0991

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.6%
EPSS 4.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0964, CVE-2016-0965, CVE-2016-0966, CVE-2016-0967, CVE-2016-0968, CVE-2016-0969, CVE-2016-0970, CVE-2016-0972, CVE-2016-0976, CVE-2016-0977, CVE-2016-0978, CVE-2016-0979, and CVE-2016-0980.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.569ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0981

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 11.2.202.569-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.569-1.el6_7

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0166

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLED 12, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 +1 more 11.2.202.569-120.1
  • flash-player SLED 11 SP4 11.2.202.569-0.35.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:0398-1SUSE-SU-2016:0400-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-0981 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-04

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.569-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.569-1.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.569-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.569-1.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.569-1.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0166

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.