High 8.8Published Mar 12, 2016

CVE-2016-0990Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.577 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 21.0.0.176, Adobe A…

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Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.577 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 21.0.0.176, Adobe AIR SDK before 21.0.0.176, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 21.0.0.176 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0987, CVE-2016-0988, CVE-2016-0991, CVE-2016-0994, CVE-2016-0995, CVE-2016-0996, CVE-2016-0997, CVE-2016-0998, CVE-2016-0999, and CVE-2016-1000.

CVSS: 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-416
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

adobe flash_player adobe:flash_player	through 20.0.0.306; through 11.2.202.569; through 20.0.0.306; through 20.0.0.306	NVD
adobe air adobe:air	through 20.0.0.233	NVD
adobe air_sdk adobe:air_sdk	through 20.0.0.260	NVD
samsung x14j_firmware samsung:x14j_firmware	t-ms14jakucb-1102.5	NVD
adobe flash_player_desktop_runtime adobe:flash_player_desktop_runtime	through 20.2.2.306	NVD
adobe air_desktop_runtime adobe:air_desktop_runtime	through 20.0.0.260	NVD
adobe air_sdk_&_compiler adobe:air_sdk_&_compiler	through 20.0.0.260	NVD

References

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00022.html	broken-link, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00023.html	broken-link, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00024.html	broken-link, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00032.html	broken-link, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84312	broken-link, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035251	broken-link, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-08.html	patch, vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-07	third-party-advisory

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