Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-2812 - Race Condition vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Race condition in the get implementation in the ServiceWorkerManager class in the Service Worker subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted web site.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
- Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.
Nessus
NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_FIREFOX_46.NASL description The version of Firefox installed on the remote Mac OS X host is prior to 46. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple memory corruption issues exist that allow an attacker to corrupt memory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2804, CVE-2016-2806, CVE-2016-2807) - A flaw exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input when handling the 32-bit generation count of the underlying HashMap. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to cause a buffer overflow condition, resulting in a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2808) - A remote code execution vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in the BeginReading() function. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to dereference already freed memory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2811) - A remote code execution vulnerability exists due to a race condition in ServiceWorkerManager in the get() function. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2812) - A heap buffer overflow condition exists in the Google Stagefright component due to improper validation of user-supplied input when handling CENC offsets and the sizes table. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2814) - A security bypass vulnerability exists due to the Content Security Policy (CSP) not being properly applied to web content sent with the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 90790 published 2016-04-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90790 title Firefox < 46 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(90790); script_version("1.9"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/20"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2016-2804", "CVE-2016-2806", "CVE-2016-2807", "CVE-2016-2808", "CVE-2016-2811", "CVE-2016-2812", "CVE-2016-2814", "CVE-2016-2816", "CVE-2016-2817", "CVE-2016-2820" ); script_bugtraq_id(88099, 88100); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-39"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-42"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-44"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-45"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-46"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-47"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-48"); script_name(english:"Firefox < 46 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the version of Firefox."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "The version of Firefox installed on the remote Mac OS X host is prior to 46. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple memory corruption issues exist that allow an attacker to corrupt memory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2804, CVE-2016-2806, CVE-2016-2807) - A flaw exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input when handling the 32-bit generation count of the underlying HashMap. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to cause a buffer overflow condition, resulting in a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2808) - A remote code execution vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in the BeginReading() function. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to dereference already freed memory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2811) - A remote code execution vulnerability exists due to a race condition in ServiceWorkerManager in the get() function. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2812) - A heap buffer overflow condition exists in the Google Stagefright component due to improper validation of user-supplied input when handling CENC offsets and the sizes table. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2814) - A security bypass vulnerability exists due to the Content Security Policy (CSP) not being properly applied to web content sent with the 'multipart/x-mixed-replace' MIME-type. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to bypass CSP protection. (CVE-2016-2816) - A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists due to improper restriction of unprivileged 'javascript: URL' navigation. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted request, to execute arbitrary script code in the context of a user's browser session. (CVE-2016-2817) - A flaw exists in the Firefox Health Report that is triggered when it accepts any content document events that are presented in its iframe. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to manipulate sharing preferences. 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NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-566.NASL description This update to Mozilla Firefox 46.0 fixes several security issues and bugs (boo#977333). The following vulnerabilities were fixed : - CVE-2016-2804: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 (boo#977373) - CVE-2016-2806: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 (boo#977375) - CVE-2016-2807: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 (boo#977376) - CVE-2016-2808: Write to invalid HashMap entry through JavaScript.watch() - MFSA 2016-47 (boo#977386) - CVE-2016-2811: Use-after-free in Service Worker - MFSA 2016-42 (boo#977379) - CVE-2016-2812: Buffer overflow in Service Worker - MFSA 2016-42 (boo#977379) - CVE-2016-2814: Buffer overflow in libstagefright with CENC offsets - MFSA 2016-44 (boo#977381) - CVE-2016-2816: CSP not applied to pages sent with multipart/x-mixed-replace - MFSA 2016-45 (boo#977382) - CVE-2016-2817: Elevation of privilege with chrome.tabs.update API in web extensions - MFSA 2016-46 (boo#977384) - CVE-2016-2820: Firefox Health Reports could accept events from untrusted domains - MFSA 2016-48 (boo#977388) The following miscellaneous changes are included : - Improved security of the JavaScript Just In Time (JIT) Compiler - WebRTC fixes to improve performance and stability - Added support for document.elementsFromPoint - Added HKDF support for Web Crypto API The minimum requirements increased to NSPR 4.12 and NSS 3.22.3. Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.22.3 as a dependency for Mozilla Firefox 46.0, with the following changes : - Increase compatibility of TLS extended master secret, don last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-05-12 plugin id 91069 published 2016-05-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91069 title openSUSE Security Update : Firefox 46.0 (openSUSE-2016-566) (SWEET32) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2936-3.NASL description USN-2936-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused an issue where a device update POST request was sent every time about:preferences#sync was shown. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Phil Ringalda, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Carsten Book, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, Randell Jesup, Andrew McCreight, and Steve Fink discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-2804, CVE-2016-2806, CVE-2016-2807) An invalid write was discovered when using the JavaScript .watch() method in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-2808) Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free and buffer overflow in service workers. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-2811, CVE-2016-2812) Sascha Just discovered a buffer overflow in libstagefright in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-2814) Muneaki Nishimura discovered that CSP is not applied correctly to web content sent with the multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks when they would otherwise be prevented. (CVE-2016-2816) Muneaki Nishimura discovered that the chrome.tabs.update API for web extensions allows for navigation to javascript: URLs. A malicious extension could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2016-2817) Mark Goodwin discovered that about:healthreport accepts certain events from any content present in the remote-report iframe. If another vulnerability allowed the injection of web content in the remote-report iframe, an attacker could potentially exploit this to change the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 91255 published 2016-05-19 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91255 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 15.10 / 16.04 LTS : firefox regression (USN-2936-3) NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_FIREFOX_46.NASL description The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 46. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple memory corruption issues exist that allow an attacker to corrupt memory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2804, CVE-2016-2806, CVE-2016-2807) - A flaw exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input when handling the 32-bit generation count of the underlying HashMap. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to cause a buffer overflow condition, resulting in a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2808) - A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Maintenance Service updater due to improper handling of long log file paths. A local attacker can exploit this to delete arbitrary files and gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2016-2809) - A remote code execution vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in the BeginReading() function. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to dereference already freed memory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2811) - A remote code execution vulnerability exists due to a race condition in ServiceWorkerManager in the get() function. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2812) - A heap buffer overflow condition exists in the Google Stagefright component due to improper validation of user-supplied input when handling CENC offsets and the sizes table. A context-dependent attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2814) - A security bypass vulnerability exists due to the Content Security Policy (CSP) not being properly applied to web content sent with the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 90793 published 2016-04-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90793 title Firefox < 46 Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2936-2.NASL description USN-2936-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused Firefox to crash on startup with the Oxygen GTK theme due to a pre-existing bug in the Oxygen-GTK3 theme engine. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Phil Ringalda, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Carsten Book, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, Randell Jesup, Andrew McCreight, and Steve Fink discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-2804, CVE-2016-2806, CVE-2016-2807) An invalid write was discovered when using the JavaScript .watch() method in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-2808) Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free and buffer overflow in service workers. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-2811, CVE-2016-2812) Sascha Just discovered a buffer overflow in libstagefright in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-2814) Muneaki Nishimura discovered that CSP is not applied correctly to web content sent with the multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks when they would otherwise be prevented. (CVE-2016-2816) Muneaki Nishimura discovered that the chrome.tabs.update API for web extensions allows for navigation to javascript: URLs. A malicious extension could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2016-2817) Mark Goodwin discovered that about:healthreport accepts certain events from any content present in the remote-report iframe. If another vulnerability allowed the injection of web content in the remote-report iframe, an attacker could potentially exploit this to change the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 90855 published 2016-05-03 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90855 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : oxygen-gtk3 update (USN-2936-2) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-541.NASL description This update to Mozilla Firefox 46.0 fixes several security issues and bugs (boo#977333). The following vulnerabilities were fixed : - CVE-2016-2804: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 (boo#977373) - CVE-2016-2806: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 (boo#977375) - CVE-2016-2807: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 (boo#977376) - CVE-2016-2808: Write to invalid HashMap entry through JavaScript.watch() - MFSA 2016-47 (boo#977386) - CVE-2016-2811: Use-after-free in Service Worker - MFSA 2016-42 (boo#977379) - CVE-2016-2812: Buffer overflow in Service Worker - MFSA 2016-42 (boo#977379) - CVE-2016-2814: Buffer overflow in libstagefright with CENC offsets - MFSA 2016-44 (boo#977381) - CVE-2016-2816: CSP not applied to pages sent with multipart/x-mixed-replace - MFSA 2016-45 (boo#977382) - CVE-2016-2817: Elevation of privilege with chrome.tabs.update API in web extensions - MFSA 2016-46 (boo#977384) - CVE-2016-2820: Firefox Health Reports could accept events from untrusted domains - MFSA 2016-48 (boo#977388) The following miscellaneous changes are included : - Improved security of the JavaScript Just In Time (JIT) Compiler - WebRTC fixes to improve performance and stability - Added support for document.elementsFromPoint - Added HKDF support for Web Crypto API The following changes from Mozilla Firefox 45.0.2 are included : - Fix an issue impacting the cookie header when third-party cookies are blocked - Fix a web compatibility regression impacting the srcset attribute of the image tag - Fix a crash impacting the video playback with Media Source Extension - Fix a regression impacting some specific uploads - Fix a regression with the copy and paste with some old versions of some Gecko applications like Thunderbird The following changes from Mozilla Firefox 45.0.2 are included : - Fix a regression causing search engine settings to be lost in some context - Bring back non-standard jar: URIs to fix a regression in IBM iNotes - XSLTProcessor.importStylesheet was failing when import was used - Fix an issue which could cause the list of search provider to be empty - Fix a regression when using the location bar (bmo#1254503) - Fix some loading issues when Accept third-party cookies: was set to Never - Disabled Graphite font shaping library The minimum requirements increased to NSPR 4.12 and NSS 3.22.3. Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.22.3 as a dependency for Mozilla Firefox 46.0, with the following changes : - Increase compatibility of TLS extended master secret, don last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-05-06 plugin id 90932 published 2016-05-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90932 title openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2016-541) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_92D44F83A7BF41CF91EE3D1B8ECF579F.NASL description Mozilla Foundation reports : MFSA 2016-39 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:46.0 / rv:45.1 / rv:38.8) MFSA 2016-42 Use-after-free and buffer overflow in Service Workers MFSA 2016-44 Buffer overflow in libstagefright with CENC offsets MFSA 2016-45 CSP not applied to pages sent with multipart/x-mixed-replace MFSA 2016-46 Elevation of privilege with chrome.tabs.update API in web extensions MFSA 2016-47 Write to invalid HashMap entry through JavaScript.watch() MFSA 2016-48 Firefox Health Reports could accept events from untrusted domains last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 90741 published 2016-04-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90741 title FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (92d44f83-a7bf-41cf-91ee-3d1b8ecf579f) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2936-1.NASL description This plugin has been deprecated because the fix caused errors, and the replacement fix is versioned strangely. Run ubuntu_USN-2936-3.nasl, plugin id 91255, instead. last seen 2017-10-29 modified 2016-06-13 plugin id 90823 published 2016-05-02 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=90823 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 / 15.10 / 16.04 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2936-1) (deprecated) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201701-15.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-15 (Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition via multiple vectors. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96276 published 2017-01-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96276 title GLSA-201701-15 : Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities (SWEET32)
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1261776
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-42.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15