Name | CVE-2016-5270 |
Description | 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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-636-1, DSA-3674-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
firefox (PTS) | sid | 131.0.2-2 | fixed |
firefox-esr (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 68.9.0esr-1~deb8u2 | fixed |
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 91.11.0esr-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 115.12.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
bullseye (security) | 128.3.1esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
bookworm | 115.14.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
bookworm (security) | 128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
trixie | 128.3.0esr-2 | fixed | |
sid | 128.3.1esr-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
firefox | source | (unstable) | 49.0-1 | |||
firefox-esr | source | wheezy | 45.4.0esr-1~deb7u1 | DLA-636-1 | ||
firefox-esr | source | jessie | 45.4.0esr-1~deb8u2 | DSA-3674-1 | ||
firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | 45.4.0esr-1 |
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-87/