CVE-2016-5278

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted image data that is mishandled during the encoding of an image frame to an image.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 48.0.2; 45.1.0, 45.1.1, 45.2.0, 45.3.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3674
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93049
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294677
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-88/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3674

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