cve-2016-5270
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-09-22 22:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:53
Severity ?
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsCaseTransformTextRunFactory::TransformString function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 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.
References
security@mozilla.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3674
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.htmlVendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93049
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1291016Issue Tracking
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-88/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3674
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93049
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1291016Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-88/
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