Type confusion in Adobe products - CVE-2016-6992

Vulnerability identifier: #VU947

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6992

CWE-ID: CWE-843

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to type confusion error when handling malicious .swf content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted SWF file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability will result in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

Adobe Flash Player for Linux
Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release
Adobe Flash Player
Microsoft Windows
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Windows Server

Update Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Google Chrome, Windows and Macintosh, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 to version 23.0.0.185;
Update Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release to version 18.0.0.382;
Update Adobe Flash Player for Linux to version 11.2.202.637.

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-32.html

• Microsoft Security Update for Adobe Flash Player
• SUSE Linux update for flash-playerqemu
• Red Hat update for flash-plugin