CVE-2016-2815

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Mozilla Firefox: through 45.1.1; through 46.0.1
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 12.0, 12.0-sp1
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 12.0, 12.0-sp1
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 12.0, 12.0-sp1
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00055.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/mfsa2016-49.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91075
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1241896
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242798

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