PT-2016-4939 · Mozilla+2 · Nspr+2

Q1 · Published 2016-02-14 · Updated 2016-11-28 · CVE-2016-1951

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.6

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NSPR versions prior to 4.12

Description The issue is caused by multiple integer overflows in the io/prprf.c file of Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR), allowing remote attackers to potentially cause a denial of service or have other unspecified impacts by providing a long string to a PR *printf function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.12, update to version 4.12 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1108

CVE-2016-1951

DLA-513-1

DSA-3687-1

USN-3023-1

USN-3028-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Nspr

Ubuntu

References · 20

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1951 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1951 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1951 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3023-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3028-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2818 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1951 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3028-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3023-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1951 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1951 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3687-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1951 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3023-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174015 · Note