PT-2016-4939
CVE-2016-1951
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Published
2016-02-14
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Updated
2016-11-28
Description by
CVSS 3.1
8.6
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
NSPR versions prior to 4.12
Description
The issue is caused by multiple integer overflows in the io/prprf.c file of Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR), allowing remote attackers to potentially cause a denial of service or have other unspecified impacts by providing a long string to a PR *printf function.
Recommendations
For versions prior to 4.12, update to version 4.12 or later to resolve the issue.
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