PT-2016-1456 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Lokihardt · Published 2016-03-08 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-1961

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 a use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLDocument::SetBody function, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This is achieved by leveraging the mishandling of a root element.

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

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1250

ALT-PU-2016-1277

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2016-00757

CESA-2016_0373

CESA-2016_0460

CVE-2016-1961

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

ZDI-16-199

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2207

• 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://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
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html · Vendor Advisory