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Red Hat: CVE-2016-5270: Critical: firefox security update (RHSA-2016:1912)

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Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 21, 2016
Added
Oct 21, 2016
Modified
Jan 17, 2018

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsCaseTransformTextRunFactory::TransformString function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (boolean out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via Unicode characters that are mishandled during text conversion.

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