PT-2016-1460 · Mozilla+6 · Firefox Esr+7

Jmamj90 · Published 2016-03-08 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-1957

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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 caused by a buffer overflow in the libstagefright library, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) using a specially crafted MPEG-4 file. This file triggers a delete operation on an array, leading to memory leak.

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

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1250

ALT-PU-2016-1277

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2016-00761

CESA-2016_0373

CESA-2016_0460

CVE-2016-1957

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

Libstagefright

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://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