CVE-2016-2805
Unspecified vulnerability in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly
02 Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.65% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Critical. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-04-30 17:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 23:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-03-01
- Assigning CNA
- mozilla
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- cd0dd18e3810d1ec9ceb0dc6f6d35a6404cf31837965144ecaf7c856ce234fa3
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.debian.orgDSA-3576http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3576
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-39.html
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:0695http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html
- www.securitytracker.com1035692http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:1374http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00057.html
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:1352http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00054.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2973-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2973-1
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-15https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1241731
- www.debian.orgDSA-3559http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3559
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:1258http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00023.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:1041http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1041.html
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- thunderbird Fixed in 1:38.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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