PT-2016-1823 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Published 2016-04-26 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-2808

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/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 46.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions 38.x prior to 38.8 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions 45.x prior to 45.1

Description The issue is related to the watch implementation in the JavaScript engine, causing a buffer overflow. This can be exploited by a remote attacker using a specially crafted web site, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code or causing a denial of service, such as a crash due to out-of-bounds write access.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 46.0, update to version 46.0 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR versions 38.x prior to 38.8, update to version 38.8 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR versions 45.x prior to 45.1, update to version 45.1 or later.

Fix

RCE

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1433

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2016-01156

CESA-2016_0695

CVE-2016-2808

DSA-3559-1

MGASA-2016-0158

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1211-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:0695

RHSA-2016_0695

SUSE-SU-2016:1258-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1342-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1374-1

USN-2936-1

USN-2936-3

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2115

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2936-3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2808 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-47 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0158.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2812 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-44 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00057.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2808 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2804 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html · Vendor Advisory