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high 8.8

CVE-2017-2988 in the critical feed json

Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.194 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability when performing garbage collection.

published 2017-02-15 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-12129

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
18.1%
EPSS 18.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.194 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability when performing garbage collection. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 24.0.0.221ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 24.0.0.221ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2988

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 6 EXTRAS 24.0.0.221-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0275

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 24.0.0.221-158.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0523-1

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-2017-2988 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB17-04

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 flash-plugin
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.221-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.221-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.221-1.el6_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0275

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-41421)

Exploit prediction

18.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-41421 Adobe Flash - SWF Stack Corruption dos, 2017-02-21

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

Affected products

  • n/a Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.194 and earlier.

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.