Mozilla Firefox up to 50 libGLES memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 50. It has been rated as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component libGLES. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2016-9897. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 50 (Web Browser). This issue affects an unknown function of the component libGLES. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during WebGL functions using a vector constructor with a varying array within libGLES. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.

The bug was discovered 12/13/2016. The weakness was presented 12/13/2016 by Christian Holler (Nils) as MFSA 2016-94 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-9897 since 12/07/2016. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 900006 , 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 236208 (Red Hat Update Firefox Security (RHSA-2016:2946)).

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 databases at Tenable (900006) and SecurityFocus (BID 94885†). See VDB-94489, VDB-94490, VDB-94491 and VDB-94492 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 900006
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OpenVAS ID: 881932
OpenVAS Name: CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2016:2946 centos7
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 50.1

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2016-94
Researcher: Christian Holler (Nils)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-9897 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-9897
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-94493

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SecurityFocus: 94885 - Mozilla Firefox MFSA2016-94 and MFSA2016-95 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1037461

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Entryinfo

Created: 12/15/2016 10:45
Updated: 10/08/2022 16:27
Changes: 12/15/2016 10:45 (73), 07/07/2019 21:24 (7), 10/08/2022 16:27 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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