SB2016092218 - Denial of service in Mozilla Firefox
Published: September 22, 2016 Updated: September 23, 2016
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016092218
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2827)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause denial of service on the target system.The weakness is caused by content security policy (CSP) containing a referrer directive with no values. An out-of-bounds memory read error in mozilla::net::IsValidReferrerPolicy() may cause the application service to deny.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service on the vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.