CVE-2016-2819

Summary

CVECVE-2016-2819
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-06-13 10:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-30 16:27:00 UTC
DescriptionHeap-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Bypass Security Restrictions, and Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information and Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3600-1 firefox-esr DEBIAN www.debian.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:1691-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:1557-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Oracle Linux Bulletin - April 2016 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
Firefox 46.0.1 - ASM.JS JIT-Spray Remote Code Execution - Windows remote Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com
USN-2993-1: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:1552-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
1270381 – (CVE-2016-2819) HTML5 parser heap-buffer-overflow CONFIRM bugzilla.mozilla.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Buffer overflow parsing HTML5 fragments — Mozilla CONFIRM www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690285 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for mozilla (8065d37b-8e7c-4707-a608-1b0a2b8509c3)
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