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CVE-2016-1019

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ...

9.8 CriticalIn KEVFix available

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

22.3%Up 10.3 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 9.8

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016.

Record
CVE-2016-1019
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
10.0 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List 7.8

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016.

Record
CVE-2016-1019
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-2123 7.8

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016.

Record
EUVD-2016-2123
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-mj28-pj3c-6jwr 9.8

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ...

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016.

Record
GHSA-mj28-pj3c-6jwr
CVSS 3.0
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
CISA KEV No score

Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Record
CVE-2016-1019
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2016-1019 9.8

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1019
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2016-0134 No score

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.616 contains fixes to critical security vulnerabilities found in earlier versions that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

This update hardens a mitigation against JIT spraying attacks that could be used to bypass memory layout randomization mitigations (CVE-2016-1006).

This update resolves type confusion vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-1015, CVE-2016-1019).

This update resolves use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-1011, CVE-2016-1013, CVE-2016-1016, CVE-2016-1017, CVE-2016-1031).

This update resolves memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-1012, CVE-2016-1020, CVE-2016-1021, CVE-2016-1022, CVE-2016-1023, CVE-2016-1024, CVE-2016-1025, CVE-2016-1026, CVE-2016-1027, CVE-2016-1028, CVE-2016-1029, CVE-2016-1032, CVE-2016-1033).

This update resolves a stack overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-1018).

This update resolves a security bypass vulnerability (CVE-2016-1030).

This update resolves a vulnerability in the directory search path used to find resources that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-1014).

Adobe reports that CVE-2016-1019 is already being actively exploited on Windows systems.

Record
MGASA-2016-0134
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:0990-1 No score

Security update for flash-player

flash-player was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed:

  • CVE-2016-1019: Adobe Flash Player allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016 (bsc#974209).
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:0990-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:1305-1 No score

Security update for flash-player

This update for flash-player fixes the following issues:

  • Security update to 11.2.202.621 (bsc#979422):

    • APSA16-02, APSB16-15, CVE-2016-1096, CVE-2016-1097, CVE-2016-1098, CVE-2016-1099, CVE-2016-1100, CVE-2016-1101, CVE-2016-1102, CVE-2016-1103, CVE-2016-1104, CVE-2016-1105, CVE-2016-1106, CVE-2016-1107, CVE-2016-1108, CVE-2016-1109, CVE-2016-1110, CVE-2016-4108, CVE-2016-4109, CVE-2016-4110, CVE-2016-4111, CVE-2016-4112, CVE-2016-4113, CVE-2016-4114, CVE-2016-4115, CVE-2016-4116, CVE-2016-4117

  • The following CVEs got fixed during the previous release, but got published afterwards:

    • APSA16-01, APSB16-10, CVE-2016-1006, CVE-2016-1011, CVE-2016-1012, CVE-2016-1013, CVE-2016-1014, CVE-2016-1015, CVE-2016-1016, CVE-2016-1017, CVE-2016-1018, CVE-2016-1019, CVE-2016-1020, CVE-2016-1021, CVE-2016-1022, CVE-2016-1023, CVE-2016-1024, CVE-2016-1025, CVE-2016-1026, CVE-2016-1027, CVE-2016-1028, CVE-2016-1029, CVE-2016-1030, CVE-2016-1031, CVE-2016-1032, CVE-2016-1033
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:1305-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
flash-player-plugin
Mageia:5
From an advisory covering 24 CVEs
 before 11.2.202.616-1.mga5.nonfree
11.2.202.616-1.mga5.nonfree
flash-plugin
Red Hat:rhel_extras:5::client
From an advisory covering 24 CVEs
 before 0:11.2.202.616-1.el5
0:11.2.202.616-1.el5
flash-plugin
Red Hat:rhel_extras:5::server
From an advisory covering 24 CVEs
 before 0:11.2.202.616-1.el5
0:11.2.202.616-1.el5
flash-plugin
Red Hat:rhel_extras:6
From an advisory covering 24 CVEs
 before 0:11.2.202.616-1.el6_7
0:11.2.202.616-1.el6_7
flash-player
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
 before 11.2.202.616-126.1
11.2.202.616-126.1
flash-player
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
 before 11.2.202.616-126.1
11.2.202.616-126.1
flash-player
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12
 before 11.2.202.616-126.1
11.2.202.616-126.1
flash-player
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP1
 before 11.2.202.616-126.1
11.2.202.616-126.1
flash-player
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
From an advisory covering 49 CVEs
 before 11.2.202.621-130.1
11.2.202.621-130.1
flash-player
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 49 CVEs
 before 11.2.202.621-130.1
11.2.202.621-130.1
flash-player
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12
From an advisory covering 49 CVEs
 before 11.2.202.621-130.1
11.2.202.621-130.1
flash-player
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 49 CVEs
 before 11.2.202.621-130.1
11.2.202.621-130.1
flashplugin-nonfree
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
 before 11.2.202.616ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions
11.2.202.310ubuntu111.2.202.327ubuntu0.13.10.111.2.202.332ubuntu111.2.202.335ubuntu111.2.202.336ubuntu1
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11.2.202.616ubuntu0.14.04.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected
exploitation
first indexedCVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, CISA KEV, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2016-1019 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Adobe Flash Player, published April 7, 2016. CISA lists it as known to be exploited, since March 3, 2022. EUVD reports exploitation since March 3, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 22.3%, the 97th percentile. Fixed in flash-player 11.2.202.616-126.1.

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