Mozilla Firefox 44 WebGL Operation resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 44 (Web Browser). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component WebGL Operation Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Linux, when an Intel video driver is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or stack memory corruption) by triggering use of a WebGL shader.

The weakness was published 03/08/2016 as MFSA 2016-19 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-1956 since 01/20/2016. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 89765 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (2225c5b4-1e5a-44fc-9920-b3201c384a15)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 168966 (OpenSuSE Security Update for Mozilla Thunderbird (openSUSE-SU-2016:1778-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (111326), Tenable (89765) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-57141†).

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 89765
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (2225c5b4-1e5a-44fc-9920-b3201c384a15)
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OpenVAS ID: 803669
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Thunderbird Security Updates( mfsa_2016-16_2016-38_1 )-Windows
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Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2016-19
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-1956 (🔍)
X-Force: 111326 - Mozilla Firefox WebGL operations denial of service
SecurityTracker: 1035215
Vulnerability Center: 57141 - Mozilla Firefox <45 On Intel Linux Remote DoS in WebGL - CVE-2016-1956, Low

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Created: 03/09/2016 10:03 AM
Updated: 07/09/2022 11:22 AM
Changes: 03/09/2016 10:03 AM (71), 09/02/2018 10:29 AM (13), 07/09/2022 11:22 AM (3)
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Cache ID: 3:18A:40

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