#VU4766 Memory corruption in Adobe products - CVE-2016-4275

Vulnerability identifier: #VU4766

Vulnerability risk: High

CVSSv4.0: 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/E:P/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-4275

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerable software:
Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release
Adobe Flash Player for Linux

Software vendor:
Adobe

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

The weakness exists due to boundary error when handling a malicious Flash content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted Web site, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code witj privileges of the current user.

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

Update Flash Player Desktop Runtime to 23.0.0.162 for Windows, Macintosh and ChromeOS.
Update Flash Player Extended Support Relaese to 18.0.0.375 for Windows and Macintosh.
Update Flash Player to 11.2.202.635 for Linux.

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-29.html