CVE-2016-2815
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2993-1
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
15Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
Múltiples vulnerabilidades no especificadas en el motor del navegador en Mozilla Firefox en versiones anteriores a 47.0 permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (corrupción de memoria y caída de aplicación) o posiblemente ejecutar código arbitrario a través de vectores desconocidos.
Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Timothy Nikkel, Sylvestre Ledru, Julian Seward, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson, Christoph Diehl, Julian Hector, Jan de Mooij, Mats Palmgren, and Tooru Fujisawa discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. A buffer overflow was discovered when parsing HTML5 fragments in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2016-03-01 CVE Reserved
- 2016-06-09 CVE Published
- 2024-08-05 CVE Updated
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
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CWE
- CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CAPEC
References (16)
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