| Name | CVE-2016-1968 |
| Description | Integer 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 817233 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| brotli (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 1.0.7-2+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, sid, bullseye | 1.0.9-2 | fixed | |
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 113.0.2-1 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | buster | 91.12.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 102.11.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 102.10.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 102.11.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 102.11.0esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| brotli | source | (unstable) | 0.3.0+dfsg-3 | 817233 | ||
| firefox | source | (unstable) | 45.0-1 | |||
| firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | 45.0esr-1 | |||
| iceweasel | source | wheezy | (not affected) | |||
| iceweasel | source | jessie | (not affected) | |||
| iceweasel | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) |
[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