CVE-2016-2834

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.23, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Mozilla Firefox: through 46.0.1
Mozilla Network Security Services: through 3.22
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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2779.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3688
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-61.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91072
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2993-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3029-1

Get alerted when CVE-2016-2834 or the next vulnerability affects your stack