CVE-2016-7868

Publication date 15 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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 related to alternation functionality. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
adobe-flashplugin	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 20161213.1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 20161213.1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 20161213.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 20161213.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2016-7868

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Status

Severity score breakdown

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