PT-2016-6331 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

Abhishek Arya · Published 2016-09-20 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-5271

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 49.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an out-of-bounds read and application crash. This is achieved through text runs in conjunction with a "display: contents" Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) property, specifically exploiting the PropertyProvider::GetSpacingInternal function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 49.0, update to version 49.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2049

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CVE-2016-5271

MGASA-2017-0059

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2368-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2386-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-3076-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2090

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5281 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5278 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3076-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5274 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5272 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0059.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0059 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5280 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3076-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5282 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5283 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-85 · Vendor Advisory