#VU701 Memory corruption in Adobe products - CVE-2016-4276

Vulnerability identifier: #VU701

Vulnerability risk: High

CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-4276

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit 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 unathenticated user to cause arbitrary code execution on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error. After tricking the victim to visit a web page containing crafted Flash content attackers can cause memory corruption and execute arbitary code.

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