CVE-2016-1957

MEDIUM

Mozilla Firefox <45.0, Firefox ESR <38.7 - Memory Consumption

Title source: llm

Description

Memory leak in libstagefright in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an MPEG-4 file that triggers a delete operation on an array.

References (22)

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00008.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-20.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.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

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2934-1

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227052

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

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3520

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html

[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/2016-03/msg00050.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html

... and 2 more

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3

EPSS 0.0036

EPSS Percentile 57.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status draft

Affected Products (22)

novell/suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise

opensuse/leap

opensuse/opensuse

mozilla/firefox < 44.0.2

mozilla/firefox

... and 7 more

Timeline

Published Mar 13, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026