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CVE-2016-2828

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via WebGL content that triggers texture access after destruction of the texture's recycle pool.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Mozilla Firefox: through 46.0.1; 45.1.0, 45.1.1
• 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://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3600
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-56.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91075
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1217
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1223810
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00014.html

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