Description
Integer underflow in Brotli, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via crafted data with brotli compression.
Published: 2016-03-13
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: 1.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-3057 Integer underflow in Brotli, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via crafted data with brotli compression.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2917-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:17:49.965Z

Reserved: 2016-01-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-1968

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Status : Modified

Published: 2016-03-13T18:59:17.273

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-1968

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-1968 - Bugzilla

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