CVE-2016-5261 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Firefox

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound10 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.92%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedAug 5
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Integer overflow in the WebSocketChannel class in the WebSockets subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR < 45.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted packets that trigger incorrect buffer-resize operations during buffering.

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
▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 48.0-1 (sid)
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 48.0-1 (sid)

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-jrqh-qj76-c265: Integer overflow in the WebSocketChannel class in the WebSockets subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2016-5261: Integer overflow in the WebSocketChannel class in the WebSockets subsystem 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
Red Hat
Mozilla: Integer overflow and memory corruption in WebSocketChannel (MFSA 2016-75, MFSA 2016-86)↗2016-09-20
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-08-05
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Red Hat
spice: Host memory access from guest with invalid primary surface parameters↗2016-06-06
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Debian
CVE-2016-5261: firefox - Integer overflow in the WebSocketChannel class in the WebSockets subsystem in Mo...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5261 Mozilla: Integer overflow and memory corruption in WebSocketChannel (MFSA 2016-75, MFSA 2016-86)↗2016-08-01
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2150 spice: Host memory access from guest with invalid primary surface parameters↗2016-03-01
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