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MFSA2016-75 Firefox: Integer overflow in WebSockets during data buffering (CVE-2016-5261)

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MFSA2016-75 Firefox: Integer overflow in WebSockets during data buffering (CVE-2016-5261)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/03/2016
Modified
06/13/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-48_0

References

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