CVE-2016-1935

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2016-01-26
Bugzilla:
1301821: CVE-2016-1935 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation (MFSA 2016-03)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer overflow in the BufferSubData function in Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted WebGL content.

Find out more about CVE-2016-1935 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2016:0071 2016-01-27
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2016:0071 2016-01-27
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) RHSA-2016:0258 2016-02-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2016:0258 2016-02-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2016:0071 2016-01-27
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2016:0258 2016-02-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2016:0258 2016-02-18

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Aki Helin as the original reporter.

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