CVE-2016-0975: Adobe Air Desktop Runtime

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the instanceof function 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 by leveraging improper reference handling, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0973, CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0982, CVE-2016-0983, and CVE-2016-0984.

Affected products

• Adobe Air Desktop Runtime: up to and including 20.0.0.233
• Adobe Air SDK: up to and including 20.0.0.233
• Adobe Air SDK & Compiler: up to and including 20.0.0.233
• Adobe Flash Player: up to and including 11.2.202.559; up to and including 18.0.0.326; up to and including 20.0.0.272; up to and including 20.0.0.286
• Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime: up to and including 20.0.0.286

Published 2016-02-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.