CVE-2016-9894 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer6 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.9%
top 16.78%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A buffer overflow in SkiaGl caused when a GrGLBuffer is truncated during allocation. Later writers will overflow the buffer, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 50.1.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 50.1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 50.1
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 50.1.0-1 (sid)
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-xfhf-q7xr-xpw6: A buffer overflow in SkiaGl caused when a GrGLBuffer is truncated during allocation↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-12-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-9894: A buffer overflow in SkiaGl caused when a GrGLBuffer is truncated during allocation↗2016-12-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-12-13
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Debian
CVE-2016-9894: firefox - A buffer overflow in SkiaGl caused when a GrGLBuffer is truncated during allocat...↗2016
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