CVE-2016-0973 Information

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the URLRequest object implementation 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 a URLLoader.load call a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0974 CVE-2016-0975 CVE-2016-0982 CVE-2016-0983 and CVE-2016-0984.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0166.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034970 http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-161/ https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-07

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8