Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code or bypass security restrictions.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities

1. Type confusion, use-after-free and memory corruption vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;
2. An unknown vulnerability can be exploited remotely to bypass security restrictions;

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Technical details

To update Adobe Flash Player ActiveX (detected as Flash.ocx) on Windows 8 and higher, install latest updates from Control Panel

Original advisories

• Adobe bulletin

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

• Adobe-Flash-Player-ActiveX
• Adobe-Flash-Player-NPAPI
• Adobe-Flash-Player-PPAPI

CVE list

• CVE-2016-6981
  critical
• CVE-2016-6982
  critical
• CVE-2016-6983
  critical
• CVE-2016-6984
  critical
• CVE-2016-6985
  critical
• CVE-2016-6986
  critical
• CVE-2016-6987
  critical
• CVE-2016-6989
  critical
• CVE-2016-6990
  critical
• CVE-2016-6992
  critical
• CVE-2016-4273
  critical
• CVE-2016-4286
  critical

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