CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1968
8.8 HIGH
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- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Integer underflow in Brotli, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via crafted data with brotli compression.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (<= 44.0.2)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-30.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246742 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-30.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246742 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 security.gentoo.org