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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2016-2836 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 6.8 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.3 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | Low |
| Integrity Impact | Low |
| Availability Impact | Low |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) | RHSA-2016:1551 | 2016-08-03 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) | RHSA-2016:1551 | 2016-08-03 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) | RHSA-2016:1809 | 2016-09-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) | RHSA-2016:1809 | 2016-09-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) | RHSA-2016:1809 | 2016-09-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) | RHSA-2016:1809 | 2016-09-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) | RHSA-2016:1551 | 2016-08-03 |
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