CVE-2016-2839

MEDIUM

Firefox < 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x < 45.3 - Denial of Service via Crafted Video

Title source: llm

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 on Linux make cairo _cairo_surface_get_extents calls that do not properly interact with libav header allocation in FFmpeg 0.10, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted video.

References (8)

Core 8

Core References

Issue Tracking, Permissions Required x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1275339

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-65.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0075

EPSS Percentile 73.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (5)

mozilla/firefox 45.1.0

mozilla/firefox 45.1.1

mozilla/firefox 45.2.0

mozilla/firefox 45.3.0

mozilla/firefox < 47.0.1

Published Aug 05, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026