CVE-2016-2838 — 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 Buffer8 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.45%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedAug 5
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBidi::BracketData::AddOpening function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via directional content in an SVG document.

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 Packages4 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)

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-q8h4-5cvc-cmwh: Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBidi::BracketData::AddOpening function in Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-2838: Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBidi::BracketData::AddOpening function in Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2016-08-05
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-08-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-08-05
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content (MFSA 2016-64)↗2016-08-02
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Debian
CVE-2016-2838: firefox - Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBidi::BracketData::AddOpening function in Mo...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2838 Mozilla: Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content (MFSA 2016-64)↗2016-08-01
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