CVE-2016-4284

high
Published 2016-09-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.375 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.162 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.635 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4274, CVE-2016-4275, CVE-2016-4276, CVE-2016-4280, CVE-2016-4281, CVE-2016-4282, CVE-2016-4283, CVE-2016-4285, CVE-2016-6922, and CVE-2016-6924.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@adobe.com — https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-29.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4284.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
macos macos-not-affected
windows windows-not-affected
linux linux-kernel-not-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"11.2.202.632"}
adobeflash_player_desktop_runtime{"endIncluding":"22.0.0.211"}

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.