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CVE-2016-1976

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the DesktopDisplayDevice class in the WebRTC implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Windows might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 44.0.2
• Webrtc Project Webrtc: all versions

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=1176340
• 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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