CVE-2016-2836
Mozilla Firefox HTTP/2/SPDY Engine Remote Code Execution Denial of Service
Description
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to Http2Session::Shutdown and SpdySession31::Shutdown, and other vectors.
INFO
Published Date :
Aug. 5, 2016, 1:59 a.m.
Last Modified :
April 12, 2025, 10:46 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
2.8
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CVE-2016-2836 vulnerability over time.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1809.html Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640 Added Reference http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-62.html Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154923 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249578 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257765 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258079 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1268626 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1282502 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283823 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=822081 Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 22, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 16, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jul. 01, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 28, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1809.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 28, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Aug. 05, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:45.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:47.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249578 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249578 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154923 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154923 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1282502 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1282502 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258079 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258079 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257765 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257765 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=822081 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=822081 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283823 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283823 Issue Tracking Changed Reference Type http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-62.html No Types Assigned http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-62.html Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1268626 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1268626 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required Added CWE CWE-119 -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Aug. 05, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2016-2836 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2016-2836
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.56 }} -1.28%
score
0.65613
percentile