Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting firefox package, versions <45.0-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
2.55% (91st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOX-425523
- published 7 Aug 2016
- disclosed 7 Aug 2016
Introduced: 7 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-1951 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.
Multiple integer overflows in io/prprf.c in Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) before 4.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string to a PR_*printf function.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1951
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=mozilla.dev.tech.nspr/dV4MyMsg6jw/hhWcXOgJDQAJ
- https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/rev/96381e3aaae2
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174015
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92385
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036590
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-1951
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3023-1