CVE-2016-1951

Múltiples desbordamientos de entero en io/prprf.c en Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) en versiones anteriores a 4.12 permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (desbordamiento de búfer) o posiblemente tener otro impacto no especificado a través de una cadena larga a una función PR_*printf.

It was discovered that NSPR incorrectly handled memory allocation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Timothy Nikkel, Sylvestre Ledru, Julian Seward, Olli Pettay, and Karl Tomlinson, discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.