CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-1966

8.8 HIGH Published 2016-03-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-03-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The nsNPObjWrapper::GetNewOrUsed function in dom/plugins/base/nsJSNPRuntime.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and memory corruption) via a crafted NPAPI plugin.

Affected configurations

• oracle linux 5.0 • oracle linux 6 • oracle linux 7 • mozilla firefox (<= 44.0.2) • mozilla firefox 38.0 • mozilla firefox 38.0.1 • mozilla firefox 38.0.5 • mozilla firefox 38.1.0 • mozilla firefox 38.1.1 • mozilla firefox 38.2.0 • mozilla firefox 38.2.1 • mozilla firefox 38.3.0 • mozilla firefox 38.4.0 • mozilla firefox 38.5.0 • mozilla firefox 38.5.1 • mozilla firefox 38.6.0 • mozilla firefox 38.6.1 • mozilla thunderbird (<= 38.6.0) • opensuse opensuse 13.1

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