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CVE-2016-2839 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.75% · 73.0th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.75%

73.0th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	firefox	0, 24.0+build1-0ubuntu1, 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	firefox	0, 41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1, 42.0+build2-0ubuntu1

Timeline

Aug 3, 2016 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 28, 2022 EPSS Score
May 19, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 10, 2022 EPSS Score
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Dec 14, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 4, 2023 EPSS Score
Mar 28, 2023 EPSS Score
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Aug 31, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2839 third-party-advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-65/ third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3044-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2839 third-party-advisory

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