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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 48 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Browser Engine. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
The weakness was presented 09/22/2016 as MFSA2016-85 as not defined advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-5256. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 93732 (openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2016-1128)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196583 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Vulnerabilities (USN-3076-1)).
Upgrading to version 49.0 eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (93732). See 91866, 91869, 91870 and 91871 for similar entries.
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CPE 2.3
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.9
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Exploiting
Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 93732
Nessus Name: openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2016-1128)
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OpenVAS ID: 831034
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox Security Updates( mfsa_2016-85_2016-86 )-MAC OS X
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Firefox 49.0
Timeline
06/03/2016 🔍09/22/2016 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: MFSA2016-85
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2016-5256 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1036852
SecurityFocus: 93052
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Entry
Created: 09/23/2016 09:23Updated: 09/20/2022 06:22
Changes: 09/23/2016 09:23 (42), 01/31/2018 09:56 (20), 09/20/2022 06:05 (3), 09/20/2022 06:14 (11), 09/20/2022 06:22 (1)
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