Denial of service in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2016-2827
Published: September 22, 2016 / Updated: September 23, 2016
Vulnerability identifier: #VU617
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2827
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause denial of service on the target system.
The weakness is caused by content security policy (CSP) containing a referrer directive with no values. An out-of-bounds memory read error in mozilla::net::IsValidReferrerPolicy() may cause the application service to deny.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service on the vulnerable system.
The weakness is caused by content security policy (CSP) containing a referrer directive with no values. An out-of-bounds memory read error in mozilla::net::IsValidReferrerPolicy() may cause the application service to deny.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service on the vulnerable system.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-2827
Update to 49.0.