PT-2016-6328 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+7

Andrew Mccreight + 8 · Published 2016-09-21 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-5257

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 49.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR 45.x versions prior to 45.4 Thunderbird versions prior to 45.4

Description The issue affects the browser engine, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service, which may result in memory corruption and application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 49.0, update to version 49.0 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR 45.x versions prior to 45.4, update to version 45.4 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 45.4, update to version 45.4 or later.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2049

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CESA-2016_1912

CESA-2016_1985

CVE-2016-5257

DLA-636-1

DLA-658-1

DSA-3674-1

DSA-3690-1

MGASA-2016-0329

MGASA-2016-0336

MGASA-2017-0059

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2368-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2386-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:1912

RHSA-2016:1985

RHSA-2016_1912

RHSA-2016_1985

SUSE-SU-2016:2431-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2434-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2513-1

USN-3076-1

USN-3112-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 2130

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5257 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3112-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5281 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5257 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1985.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5278 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0336.html · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3690 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3076-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0329.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5274 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5272 · Vendor Advisory