Out-of-Bounds Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.3.0esr-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
5.19% (93rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-FIREFOXESR-1545761
- published 5 Aug 2016
- disclosed 5 Aug 2016
Introduced: 5 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-2838 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12
firefox-esr
to version 45.3.0esr-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr
package and not the firefox-esr
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:12
relevant fixed versions and status.
Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBidi::BracketData::AddOpening function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via directional content in an SVG document.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2838
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-64.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279814
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-2838
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1