CVE-2016-1968 Information

Description

Integer underflow in Brotli as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via crafted data with brotli compression.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-30.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246742 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8