CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-5270.md

CVE-2016-5270

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsCaseTransformTextRunFactory::TransformString function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (boolean out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via Unicode characters that are mishandled during text conversion.

POC

Reference

• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-88/

Github

• https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories