CVE-2016-5278 — 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
OSV6.5OSV4.3
EPSS
1.5%
top 18.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla ThunderbirdDebian Firefox+1 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 22
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted image data that is mishandled during the encoding of an image frame to an image.

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< 49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox48.0.2+4
▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 49.0-1 (sid)
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 49.0-1 (sid)
▶Ubuntumozilla/thunderbird< 1:45.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-jf8q-fmcm-x642: Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame function in Mozilla Firefox before 49↗2022-05-14
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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2016-10-27
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OSV
CVE-2016-5278: Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame function in Mozilla Firefox before 49↗2016-09-22
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-09-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2016-10-27
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-09-22
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)↗2016-09-20
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Debian
CVE-2016-5278: firefox - Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame function in Mozill...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5278 Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)↗2016-09-20
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