PT-2016-1443 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Q1 · Published 2016-03-08 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-1974

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

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 Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0 Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.7

Description The issue is related to the nsScannerString::AppendUnicodeTo function, which does not verify that memory allocation succeeds. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted Unicode data in an HTML, XML, or SVG document.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0, update to version 45.0 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.7, update to version 38.7 or later.

Fix

RCE

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1250

ALT-PU-2016-1277

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2016-00744

CESA-2016_0373

CESA-2016_0460

CVE-2016-1974

DSA-3510-1

DSA-3520-1

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

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

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-2934-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2204

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2800 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2802 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-34 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-81 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1974 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1958 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2798 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2799 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-24 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:1769-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-136 · Vendor Advisory