SB2016092217 - Denial of service in Mozilla Firefox 



SB2016092217 - Denial of service in Mozilla Firefox

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

Security Bulletin ID SB2016092217
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5273)

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

Install update from vendor's website.