Mozilla Firefox up to 50 memory corruption

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 50 (Web Browser). Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 50.0.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1.

The bug was discovered 12/13/2016. The weakness was published 12/13/2016 by Christian Holler (lion) as MFSA 2016-94 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2016-9080 since 10/27/2016. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 10/08/2022).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 900045 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 370264 (Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA2016-94,MFSA2016-95)).

Upgrading to version 50.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (900045). Similar entries are available at 94489, 94490, 94491 and 94492.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 900045
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OpenVAS ID: 802170
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox Security Updates( mfsa_2016-94_2016-95 )-Windows
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Upgrade: Firefox 50.1

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Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2016-94
Researcher: Christian Holler (lion)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-9080 (🔍)
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SecurityTracker: 1037461
SecurityFocus: 94883 - Mozilla Firefox MFSA2016-94 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

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Created: 12/15/2016 10:45
Updated: 10/08/2022 17:42
Changes: 12/15/2016 10:45 (72), 07/07/2019 22:16 (7), 10/08/2022 17:42 (3)
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