CVE-2016-5261

Description

Integer overflow in the WebSocketChannel class in the WebSockets subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR < 45.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted packets that trigger incorrect buffer-resize operations during buffering.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1287266

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-75.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3674

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3