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CVE-2016-5270

CVSS v3.0 9.8 (Critical)
98% Progress
CVSS v2.0 7.5 (High)
75% Progress
EPSS 4.40 % (93th)
4.40% Progress
Affected Products 2
Advisories 14
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Mozilla Corporation
Published Date
2016-09-22 22:59:03
(8 years ago)
Updated Date
2018-06-12 01:29:00
(6 years ago)

Affected Products

Mozilla

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Mozilla Firefox 48.0.2 and prior versions cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox <= 48.0.2
  Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.0
  Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.1
  Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.2.0
  Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.3.0