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MFSA2016-30 Firefox: Buffer overflow in Brotli decompression (CVE-2016-1968)

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MFSA2016-30 Firefox: Buffer overflow in Brotli decompression (CVE-2016-1968)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/08/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/10/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-45_0

References

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