CVE-2016-1956

MEDIUM

Mozilla Firefox <45.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Linux, when an Intel video driver is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or stack memory corruption) by triggering use of a WebGL shader.

References (12)

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-19.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199923

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00008.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0027

EPSS Percentile 50.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-399

Status draft

Affected Products (5)

mozilla/firefox < 44.0.2

novell/suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise

opensuse/leap

opensuse/opensuse

Timeline

Published Mar 13, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026