Denial of service in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2016-5273
Published: September 22, 2016 / Updated: September 23, 2016
Vulnerability identifier: #VU616
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5273
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause denial of service on the target system.
The weakness causes crash in accessibility. An error in mozilla::a11y::HyperTextAccessible::GetChildOffset() may lead to the application service denial.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service on the vulnerable system.
The weakness causes crash in accessibility. An error in mozilla::a11y::HyperTextAccessible::GetChildOffset() may lead to the application service denial.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service on the vulnerable system.
Affected software
Mozilla Firefox
How to mitigate CVE-2016-5273
Update to 49.0.