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MFSA2016-31 Thunderbird: Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI plugin (CVE-2016-1966)

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MFSA2016-31 Thunderbird: Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI plugin (CVE-2016-1966)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/16/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The nsNPObjWrapper::GetNewOrUsed function in dom/plugins/base/nsJSNPRuntime.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and memory corruption) via a crafted NPAPI plugin.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-38_7

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