PT-2016-1454 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

Oriol + 1 · Published 2016-03-08 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-1963

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.4

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0

Description The issue is related to the FileReader class in Mozilla Firefox, which has insufficient access control. This can be exploited by a local attacker to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by changing a file during a FileReader API read operation.

Recommendations For versions prior to 45.0, update to version 45.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the FileReader API until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1277

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2016-00755

CVE-2016-1963

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0731-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0733-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-2917-1

USN-2917-2

USN-2917-3

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2116

• 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1958 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2799 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1968 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1963 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1955 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1959 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1961 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1963 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1963 · Security Note