CVE-2016-9897Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
4.0%
top 11.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during WebGL functions using a vector constructor with a varying array within libGLES. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.

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 Packages12 packages

debiandebian/firefox< firefox 50.1.0-1 (sid)
CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified50.1
NVDmozilla/firefox< 50.1
debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 50.1.0-1 (sid)
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified45.6

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-wq32-2pg5-3r7p: Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during WebGL functions using a vector constructor with a varying array within libGLES2022-05-14
OSV
CVE-2016-9897: Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during WebGL functions using a vector constructor with a varying array within libGLES2018-06-11
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-01-28
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities2016-12-13

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-01-28
Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory corruption in libGLES (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)2016-12-14
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2016-12-13
Debian
CVE-2016-9897: firefox - Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during WebGL func...2016

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9897 Mozilla: Memory corruption in libGLES (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)2016-12-13