Access Restriction Bypass Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.0esr-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOXESR-354785
  • published13 Mar 2016
  • disclosed13 Mar 2016

Introduced: 13 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-1963  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable firefox-esr to version 45.0esr-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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

The FileReader class in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by changing a file during a FileReader API read operation.

CVSS Scores

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