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. Use-after-free vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.
2. Buffer overflow vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.
3. Memory corruption vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.
4. 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 Security 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-2016-7880
  critical
• CVE-2016-7881
  critical
• CVE-2016-7890
  critical
• CVE-2016-7892
  critical
• CVE-2016-7867
  critical
• CVE-2016-7868
  critical
• CVE-2016-7869
  critical
• CVE-2016-7870
  critical
• CVE-2016-7871
  critical
• CVE-2016-7872
  critical
• CVE-2016-7873
  critical
• CVE-2016-7874
  critical
• CVE-2016-7875
  critical
• CVE-2016-7876
  critical
• CVE-2016-7877
  critical
• CVE-2016-7878
  critical
• CVE-2016-7879
  critical

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