CVE-2016-1960

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

CWE-416: Use After Free

Integer underflow in the nsHtml5TreeBuilder class in the HTML5 string parser in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging mishandling of end tags, as demonstrated by incorrect SVG processing, aka ZDI-CAN-3545.

CWE-416: Use After Free

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-03-13 18:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-12-27 16:08:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.0

38.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.0.1

38.0.1

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.0.5

38.0.5

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.1.0

38.1.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.1.1

38.1.1

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.2.0

38.2.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.2.1

38.2.1

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 38.3.0

38.3.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.4.0

38.4.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.5.0

38.5.0

Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.5.1

38.5.1

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 38.6.0

38.6.0

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 38.6.1

38.6.1

Mozilla Thunderbird

openSUSE Leap 42.1

42.1

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.0

12.0

References

SUSE-SU-2016:0727

openSUSE-SU-2016:0731

openSUSE-SU-2016:0733

SUSE-SU-2016:0777

SUSE-SU-2016:0820

openSUSE-SU-2016:0876

openSUSE-SU-2016:0894

Third Party Advisory

SUSE-SU-2016:0909

openSUSE-SU-2016:1767

Third Party Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2016:1769

Third Party Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2016:1778

Third Party Advisory

DSA-3510

DSA-3520

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-23.html

Vendor Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

Third Party Advisory

1035215

USN-2917-1

USN-2917-2

USN-2917-3

USN-2934-1

http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-198/

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246014

Issue Tracking

GLSA-201605-06

42484

44294

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