CVE-2016-2805

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0, 38.1.1, 38.2.0 (+9)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00054.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00057.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1041.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3559
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3576
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-39.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2973-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1241731

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