PT-2016-5231 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Atte Kettunen · Published 2016-08-02 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-2838

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 45.x versions prior to 45.3

Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBidi::BracketData::AddOpening function. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via directional content in an SVG document.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 48.0, update to version 48.0 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR 45.x versions prior to 45.3, update to version 45.3 or later.

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1836

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CESA-2016_1551

CVE-2016-2838

DLA-585-1

DSA-3640-1

MGASA-2016-0278

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

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:1551

RHSA-2016_1551

SUSE-SU-2016:2061-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2195-1

USN-3044-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2165

• 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/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1 · 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2838 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-76 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2254-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-63 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3044-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-80 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-79 · Vendor Advisory