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CVE-2016-1968

Date: March 13, 2016

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.

Severity Score

8.8

Related Resources (13)

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1968

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-1968

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1968

Url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246742

Url: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-30.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-1968

Severity Score

8.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Numeric Errors

CWE-189

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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