#VU616 Denial of service in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2016-5273 

 

#VU616 Denial of service in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2016-5273

Published: September 22, 2016 / Updated: September 23, 2016


Vulnerability identifier: #VU616
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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-2016-5273
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Mozilla Firefox
Software vendor:
Mozilla

Description

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.

Remediation

Update to 49.0.

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