| Name | CVE-2016-5260 |
| Description | Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 mishandles changes from 'INPUT type="password"' to 'INPUT type="text"' within a single Session Manager session, which might allow attackers to discover cleartext passwords by reading a session restoration file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 138.0.4-1 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 128.10.1esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 128.10.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 128.10.1esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie, sid | 128.10.1esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| firefox | source | (unstable) | 48.0-1 | | | |
| firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- firefox-esr <not-affected> (Doesn't affect Firefox ESR)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-74/