CVE-2016-1951

Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in io/prprf.c in Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) before 4.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string to a PR_*printf function.

Affected products

Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime: through 4.11

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92385
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036590
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3023-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174015
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=mozilla.dev.tech.nspr/dV4MyMsg6jw/hhWcXOgJDQAJ
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/rev/96381e3aaae2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92385
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036590
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3023-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174015
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=mozilla.dev.tech.nspr/dV4MyMsg6jw/hhWcXOgJDQAJ
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/rev/96381e3aaae2

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