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CVE-2016-6986 json

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.382 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.637 on Linux allows at…

published 2016-10-13 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7871

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 18.0.0.382 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.637 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4273, CVE-2016-6982, CVE-2016-6983, CVE-2016-6984, CVE-2016-6985, CVE-2016-6989, and CVE-2016-6990.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.637ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 11.2.202.637ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6986

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 11.2.202.637-1.el5_11
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.637-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2057

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 11.2.202.637-143.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2512-1

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-2016-6986 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-32

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.637-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.637-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.637-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.637-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.637-1.el6_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2057

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

4.63% 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

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