PT-2016-1428 · Mozilla +5 · Firefox Esr +7

Tsmith + 1 · Published 2016-03-07 · Updated 2024-10-22 · CVE-2016-2791

Positive Technologies · (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions:

Graphite 2 versions prior to 1.3.6

Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.x versions prior to 38.7

Description:

The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the graphite2::GlyphCache::glyph function of Graphite 2, which is used in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR. This can be exploited by a remote attacker using a specially crafted Graphite smart font, potentially leading to a denial of service or other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations:

For Graphite 2 versions prior to 1.3.6, update to version 1.3.6 or later.

For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0, update to version 45.0 or later.

For Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.x versions prior to 38.7, update to version 38.7 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1277

ALT-PU-2016-1454

ALT-PU-2016-1478

BDU:2016-00729

CESA-2016_0373

CESA-2016_0460

CVE-2016-2791

DSA-3510-1

DSA-3515-1

DSA-3520-1

MGASA-2016-0097

MGASA-2016-0105

MGASA-2016-0115

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:1769-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:1778-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0731-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0733-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0876-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0894-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1767-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1778-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

RHSA-2016:0373

RHSA-2016:0460

RHSA-2016_0373

RHSA-2016_0460

SUSE-SU-2016:0727-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0777-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0909-1

USN-2917-1

USN-2917-2

USN-2917-3

USN-2927-1

USN-2934-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Graphite 2

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 1452

• 🔥 https://github.com/llamakko/CVE-2015-7214 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1950 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3515 · Vendor Advisory
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• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4509 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-25 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-00029 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2796 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4504 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-12243 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-12010 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00747 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00573 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1956 · Vendor Advisory