CVE-2016-1961 Affecting firefox package, versions <45.0-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
2.83% (91st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOX-425332
- published 13 Mar 2016
- disclosed 13 Mar 2016
Introduced: 13 Mar 2016
CVE-2016-1961 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
firefox
to version 45.0-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox
package and not the firefox
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLDocument::SetBody function in dom/html/nsHTMLDocument.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging mishandling of a root element, aka ZDI-CAN-3574.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1961
- http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/b208427885d3
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3520
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-199/
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-24.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00089.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00008.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249377
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-1961
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2934-1