The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196637 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Vulnerabilities (USN-3140-1)). The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 900015, which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k. It is possible to download the exploit at. Technical details and also a public exploit are known.Ī public exploit has been developed in Ruby and been published 2 months after the advisory. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-9079 since. The weakness was released with Mozilla as MFSA 2016-92 as confirmed security advisory (Website). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-416. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Affected by this vulnerability is the function nsSMILTimeContainer::NotifyTimeChange of the component SVG Animation Handler. A high score indicates an elevated risk to be targeted for this vulnerability.Ī vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 50.0.2 ( Web Browser). The CTI Interest Score identifies the interest of attackers and the security community for this specific vulnerability in real-time. Our Cyber Threat Intelligence team is monitoring different web sites, mailing lists, exploit markets and social media networks.

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