# CVE-2016-0984: Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability

> CVE-2016-0984: Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability. CVSS 8.8 (CVSS 3.1), in CISA KEV.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2016-0984
Last updated: 2025-10-21T23:55:55Z

- Published: 2016-02-10 20:00 UTC · Updated: 2025-10-21 23:55 UTC · Assigner: adobe
- CVSS: 8.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 54.5%, 99th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: yes, added 2022-05-25, federal due date 2022-06-15, ransomware use: Unknown

## Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.329 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.306 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.569 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.260, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.260, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.260 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0973, CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, and CVE-2016-0983.

## CISA required action

The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

## Affected vendors and products

- Adobe: Flash Player and AIR

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0984)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0984)
- [http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.html](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.html)
- [http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.html](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.html)
- [http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.html](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.html)
- [http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.html](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.html)
- [http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0166.html](http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0166.html)
- [https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.html](https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.html)
- [https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-07](https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-07)
- [https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39462/](https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39462/)
- [http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034970](http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034970)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2016-0984 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2016-0984.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2016-0984 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:44:09.023Z