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CVE-2016-0998 in the critical feed json

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before…

published 2016-03-12 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1008

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
28.3%
EPSS 28.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.577 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 21.0.0.176, Adobe AIR SDK before 21.0.0.176, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 21.0.0.176 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0987, CVE-2016-0988, CVE-2016-0990, CVE-2016-0991, CVE-2016-0994, CVE-2016-0995, CVE-2016-0996, CVE-2016-0997, CVE-2016-0999, and CVE-2016-1000.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.577ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0998

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 11.2.202.577-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.577-1.el6_7

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0438

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLED 12, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 +1 more 11.2.202.577-123.1
  • flash-player SLED 11 SP4 11.2.202.577-0.38.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:0715-1SUSE-SU-2016:0716-1

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-2016-0998 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-08

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.577-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.577-1.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.577-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.577-1.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.577-1.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0438

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

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-39612)

Exploit prediction

28.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-39631 Adobe Flash - Object.unwatch Use-After-Free remote, 2016-03-29
  • EDB-39612 Adobe Flash - Uninitialized Stack Parameter Access in Object.unwatch UaF Fix dos, 2016-03-23

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.