CVE-2016-2819

Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via foreign-context HTML5 fragments, as demonstrated by fragments within an SVG element.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.8 High

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2016-06-13

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Leap (Opensuse)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00055.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3600
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-50.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91075
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1217
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1270381
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44293/