CVE-2016-2819

Publication date 8 June 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via foreign-context HTML5 fragments, as demonstrated by fragments within an SVG element.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
15.10 wily
Fixed 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
thunderbird 16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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