CVE-2016-1931

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to uninitialized memory encountered during brotli data compression, and other vectors.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 43.0.4
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81953
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1180064
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1186973
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1206675
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207298
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1209358

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