{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 10 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2016-9079 in the wild since at least 22 Jun 2023.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version. US federal agencies must fix it by 13 Jul 2023.","what":"CVE-2016-9079 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 11 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-9079 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-9079 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 11 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2016-9079 in the wild since at least 22 Jun 2023.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9079/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9079/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-9079","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-9079/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-9079","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9079","DSA-3728-1","GHSA-cmgc-v5fc-wx68","MGASA-2016-0410","RHSA-2016:2843","RHSA-2016:2850","SUSE-SU-2016:3048-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9079"],"analysis":{"component_type":"browser","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Mozilla Firefox","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A use-after-free flaw in SVG Animation allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted web content, affecting Firefox and Thunderbird users.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mozilla","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"firefox","vendor":"mozilla"},{"product":"thunderbird","vendor":"mozilla"},{"product":"enterprise_linux","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_desktop","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_server","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_server_aus","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_server_eus","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"enterprise_linux_workstation","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"tor","vendor":"torproject"}],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. 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