CVE-2016-1972

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Race condition in libvpx in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Windows might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 44.0.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-32.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84220
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1218124
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-32.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84220
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215

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