FreeBSD VuXML: Documenting security issues in FreeBSD and the FreeBSD Ports Collection

CVE-2016-1960

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2016-03-08 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The following information is adapted from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project. CVE and the CVE logo are trademarks of The MITRE Corporation. CVE content is Copyright 2005, The MITRE Corporation.

Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2016-1960
Phase Assigned(20160120)

Description

Integer underflow in the nsHtml5TreeBuilder class in the HTML5 string parser 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 (use-after-free) by leveraging mishandling of end tags, as demonstrated by incorrect SVG processing, aka ZDI-CAN-3545.

References

Source Reference
MISC http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-198/
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-23.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246014
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:0894
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1767
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1769
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1778