FKIE_CVE-2016-2819
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-13 10:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:44
Severity
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via foreign-context HTML5 fragments, as demonstrated by fragments within an SVG element.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| opensuse | leap | 42.1 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.1 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.2 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 45.1.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 45.1.1 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | * | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 15.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 |
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