CVE-2016-9897 Memory corruption in Firefox

What is CVE-2016-9897?

CVE-2016-9897 is a high-severity memory corruption 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.

Official description

Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during WebGL functions using a vector constructor with a varying array within libGLES. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9897?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Esr, Mozilla Thunderbird, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9897?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-9897 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9897 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9897, GHSA-wq32-2pg5-3r7p, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9897.