CVE-2016-9079

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2016-12-01
Bugzilla:
1400376: CVE-2016-9079 Mozilla: Firefox SVG Animation Remote Code Execution (MFSA 2016-92)
A flaw was found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.

Find out more about CVE-2016-9079 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

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 7.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) RHSA-2016:2850 2016-12-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2016:2850 2016-12-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2016:2843 2016-12-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2016:2850 2016-12-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2016:2850 2016-12-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2016:2843 2016-12-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2016:2843 2016-12-01

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.

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