CVE-2016-2836 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer10 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla ThunderbirdDebian Firefox+1 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 5
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to Http2Session::Shutdown and SpdySession31::Shutdown, and other vectors.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox47.0.1+4
▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 48.0-1 (sid)
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 48.0-1 (sid)
▶Ubuntumozilla/thunderbird< 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-458f-jrrc-3qjf: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2022-05-17
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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2016-09-22
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OSV
CVE-2016-2836: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2016-08-05
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-08-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2016-09-22
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-08-05
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:45.3) (MFSA 2016-62)↗2016-08-02
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Debian
CVE-2016-2836: firefox - Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox be...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2836 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:45.3) (MFSA 2016-62)↗2016-08-01
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