CVE-2016-5256 — 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
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedSep 22
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox48.0.2
▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 49.0-1 (sid)
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 49.0-1 (sid)

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-6m4q-5fp8-jrhp: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 49↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-5256: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 49↗2016-09-22
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-09-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-09-22
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 49 (MFSA 2016-85)↗2016-09-20
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Debian
CVE-2016-5256: firefox - Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox be...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5256 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 49 (MFSA 2016-85)↗2016-09-20
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