vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-7870: Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 15, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier have an exploitable buffer overflow / underflow vulnerability in the RegExp class for specific search strategies. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-plugins-adobe-flash
Title
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