CVE-2016-2827

medium

Description

The mozilla::net::IsValidReferrerPolicy function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a Content Security Policy (CSP) referrer directive with zero values.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-85/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289085

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036852

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93052

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-09-22

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H