PT-2016-7641 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox Esr+5

Franziskus Kiefer · Published 2016-11-15 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-9074

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 50 Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.5 Thunderbird versions prior to 45.5

Description The issue arises from an insufficient existing mitigation of timing side-channel attacks. This can be exploited under certain circumstances. The estimated number of potentially affected devices worldwide is not specified. There is no information about real-world incidents where this issue was exploited.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 50, update to version 50 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.5, update to version 45.5 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 45.5, update to version 45.5 or later.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2307

ALT-PU-2016-2321

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CVE-2016-9074

DLA-752-1

DLA-759-1

DSA-3716-1

DSA-3730-1

MGASA-2016-0379

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2861-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3011-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3014-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3080-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3105-1

USN-3163-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 2104

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1293334 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3163-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3080-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-46 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9074 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9074 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9074 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0379 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0379.html · Security Note