PT-2016-5229 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Jesse Ruderman · Published 2016-08-02 · Updated 2024-10-22 · CVE-2016-2836

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 48.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.3

Description The issue is related to multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in memory corruption and application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The vulnerabilities are related to vectors such as Http2Session::Shutdown and SpdySession31::Shutdown, among other vectors.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 48.0, update to version 48.0 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.3, update to version 45.3 or later.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1836

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CESA-2016_1551

CESA-2016_1809

CVE-2016-2836

DLA-585-1

DLA-640-1

DSA-3640-1

DSA-3686-1

MGASA-2016-0278

MGASA-2016-0330

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2253-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2254-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1964-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2026-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

RHSA-2016:1551

RHSA-2016:1809

RHSA-2016_1551

RHSA-2016_1809

SUSE-SU-2016:2061-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2195-1

USN-3044-1

USN-3073-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 1025

• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-67 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2836 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-64 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-70 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2836 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5250 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3686-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2836 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-76 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0278.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2254-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2195-1 · Vendor Advisory