CVE-2016-1959 (GCVE-0-2016-1959)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-03-13 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:10
VLAI
Summary
The ServiceWorkerManager class in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and memory corruption) via unspecified use of the Clients API.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1234949 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2016-03-08 00:00
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      "aggregate_severity": "Critical",
      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T12:08:50+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2016-1959",
      "id": "CVE-2016-1959",
      "initial_release_date": "2016-03-08T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "10",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "Mozilla: Service Worker Manager out-of-bounds read in Service Worker Manager (MFSA 2016-22)",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2016/cve-2016-1959.json",
      "version": "3"
    },
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      "cve": "CVE-2016-1959",
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      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:07:06Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "38",
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      "product_status:recommended": "246",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2016-1959",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2016-1959.json",
      "version": "21"
    }
  }
}



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