CVE-2016-1956

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Linux, when an Intel video driver is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or stack memory corruption) by triggering use of a WebGL shader.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 44.0.2
Novell Suse Package Hub For Suse Linux Enterprise: 12
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00008.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-19.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199923
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

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