VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-2839

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.79%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-08-05
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references