FKIE_CVE-2016-4171

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-16 14:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:47
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.242 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in June 2016.
References
psirt@adobe.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
psirt@adobe.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
psirt@adobe.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
psirt@adobe.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91184Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
psirt@adobe.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036094Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
psirt@adobe.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1238Third Party Advisory
psirt@adobe.comhttps://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa16-03.htmlVendor Advisory
psirt@adobe.comhttps://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-18.htmlVendor Advisory
psirt@adobe.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-08Third Party Advisory
psirt@adobe.comhttps://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/748992Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91184Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036094Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1238Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa16-03.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-18.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-08Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/748992Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196Issue Tracking
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-4171US Government Resource

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    {
      "description": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "NVD-CWE-noinfo"
        }
      ],
      "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
      "type": "Primary"
    }
  ]
}



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Taxonomy of the tags.


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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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