PT-2016-1458 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

Looben Yang + 1 · Published 2016-03-08 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-1959

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

Description The issue is related to the ServiceWorkerManager class and can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service, resulting in out-of-bounds read and memory corruption. This is achieved through unspecified use of the Clients API.

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

Fix

RCE

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1277

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2016-00759

CVE-2016-1959

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/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1959 · Vendor Advisory
• 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://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1959 · Security Note
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-22.html · 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
• 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