CVE-2016-1966

HIGH

Mozilla Firefox <45.0, Firefox ESR <38.7 - RCE/DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (20)

Core 20
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3520
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246054
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2934-1
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0080
EPSS Percentile 74.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (19)
mozilla/firefox 38.0
mozilla/firefox 38.0.1
mozilla/firefox 38.0.5
mozilla/firefox 38.1.0
mozilla/firefox 38.1.1
mozilla/firefox 38.2.0
mozilla/firefox 38.2.1
mozilla/firefox 38.3.0
mozilla/firefox 38.4.0
mozilla/firefox 38.5.0
... and 9 more
Published Mar 13, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026