CVE-2016-2838 in Firefox

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBidi::BracketData::AddOpening function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via directional content in an SVG document.

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• Reservation: 03/01/2016
• Disclosure: 08/04/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-90427 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.8
• EPSS: 0.01155
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2838
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2838
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-2838/