CVE-2016-9079 on CISA KEV

A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users on Windows. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.0.2, Firefox ESR < 45.5.1, and Thunderbird

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users on Windows. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.0.2, Firefox ESR < 45.5.1, and Thunderbird < 45.5.1.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730
• rhn.redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2843.html
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-35
• www.securitytracker.com — http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037370
• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42327/
• rhn.redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2850.html
• www.mozilla.org — https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-92/
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94591
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41151/
• bugzilla.mozilla.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321066

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

06Detection

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