Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox-esr (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published22 Sept 2016
- disclosed22 Sept 2016
Introduced: 22 Sep 2016
CVE-2016-2827 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.
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.
The mozilla::net::IsValidReferrerPolicy function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a Content Security Policy (CSP) referrer directive with zero values.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2827
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-85/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289085
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-2827