CVE-2016-5297 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.8%
top 17.10%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
An error in argument length checking in JavaScript, leading to potential integer overflows or other bounds checking issues. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.
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 Packages9 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-3h9f-q3m2-wjhj: An error in argument length checking in JavaScript, leading to potential integer overflows or other bounds checking issues↗2022-05-14
OSV▶
CVE-2016-5297: An error in argument length checking in JavaScript, leading to potential integer overflows or other bounds checking issues↗2018-06-11
📋Vendor Advisories
4Red Hat
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Debian▶
CVE-2016-5297: firefox - An error in argument length checking in JavaScript, leading to potential integer...↗2016
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2016-5297 Mozilla: Incorrect argument length checking in Javascript (MFSA 2016-89, MFSA 2016-90)↗2016-11-15