CVE-2016-1968

NameCVE-2016-1968
DescriptionInteger underflow in Brotli, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via crafted data with brotli compression.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs817233

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
brotli (PTS)buster, buster (security)1.0.7-2+deb10u1fixed
bookworm, bullseye1.0.9-2fixed
sid, trixie1.1.0-2fixed
firefox (PTS)sid124.0.1-1fixed
firefox-esr (PTS)buster91.12.0esr-1~deb10u1fixed
buster (security)115.9.1esr-1~deb10u1fixed
bullseye115.7.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)115.9.1esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm115.7.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)115.9.1esr-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie115.8.0esr-1fixed
sid115.9.1esr-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
brotlisource(unstable)0.3.0+dfsg-3817233
firefoxsource(unstable)45.0-1
firefox-esrsource(unstable)45.0esr-1
iceweaselsourcewheezy(not affected)
iceweaselsourcejessie(not affected)
iceweaselsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

[jessie] - iceweasel <not-affected> (Only affects Firefox 44.x)
[wheezy] - iceweasel <not-affected> (Only affects Firefox 44.x)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-30/
https://github.com/google/brotli/commit/37a320dd81db8d546cd24a45b4c61d87b45dcade

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