PT-2016-1451 · Mozilla+6 · Firefox Esr+7

Nicholas Nethercote · Published 2016-03-08 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-1966

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 errors in pointer dereferencing in the nsNPObjWrapper::GetNewOrUsed function, which can be exploited by a remote attacker using a specially crafted NPAPI plugin. This exploitation can lead to the execution of arbitrary code or cause a denial of service due to memory corruption.

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

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1250

ALT-PU-2016-1277

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2016-00752

CESA-2016_0373

CESA-2016_0460

CVE-2016-1966

DSA-3510-1

DSA-3520-1

MGASA-2016-0105

MGASA-2016-0115

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0731-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0733-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0876-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0894-1

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

Npapi

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2191

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00752 · Security Note
• 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
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1966 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-81 · 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://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-136 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html · Vendor Advisory