CVE-2016-2839

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 on Linux make cairo _cairo_surface_get_extents calls that do not properly interact with libav header allocation in FFmpeg 0.10, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted video.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 47.0.1; 45.1.0, 45.1.1, 45.2.0, 45.3.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-65.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1275339
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-65.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261

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