Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service, execute arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions or obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities

1. An improper values handling at CSP can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service; (Firefox)
2. Out of bounds write can be exploited remotely via special characters manipulation to cause denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code;
3. Out-of-bounds read can be exploited remotely via special text manipulations to cause denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code; (Firefox)
4. Bad cast can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code;
5. An unknown vulnerability can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code; (Firefox)
6. Use-after-free vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed SVG or another unknown vectors to cause denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code;
7. Buffer overflow can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code; (Firefox)
8. Buffer overflow can be exploited remotely via images manipulations to cause denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code;
9. Lack of full file path disclosure restrictions can be exploited remotely via a specially designed scripts to obtain sensitive information; (Firefox)
10. Lack of content restrictions can be exploited remotely to bypass white-list restrictions; (Firefox)
11. Timing attack vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed IFRAME to obtain sensitive information; (Firefox)
12. An improper certificates handling can be exploited remotely via man-in-the-middle attack to spoof add-on updates;
13. Multiple memory safety vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code;
14. An improper resources storage at Resource Timing API can be exploited remotely via a specially designed content to obtain sensitive information; (Firefox ESR)
15. Integer overflow at WebSockets can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code; (Firefox ESR)

Original advisories

• Mozilla Firefox advisory

• Mozilla Firefox ESR advisory

Related products

• Mozilla-Firefox
• Mozilla-Firefox-ESR

CVE list

• CVE-2016-5284
  warning
• CVE-2016-5281
  critical
• CVE-2016-5280
  critical
• CVE-2016-5278
  high
• CVE-2016-5277
  critical
• CVE-2016-5276
  critical
• CVE-2016-5274
  critical
• CVE-2016-5272
  high
• CVE-2016-5270
  critical
• CVE-2016-5257
  critical
• CVE-2016-5250
  warning
• CVE-2016-5283
  high
• CVE-2016-5282
  warning
• CVE-2016-5279
  warning
• CVE-2016-5275
  high
• CVE-2016-5273
  high
• CVE-2016-5271
  warning
• CVE-2016-5256
  critical
• CVE-2016-2827
  warning
• CVE-2016-5261
  critical

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