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MFSA2016-10 Firefox: Unsafe memory manipulation found through code inspection (CVE-2016-1945)

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MFSA2016-10 Firefox: Unsafe memory manipulation found through code inspection (CVE-2016-1945)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/26/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/29/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The nsZipArchive function in Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect use of a pointer during processing of a ZIP archive.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-44_0

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