SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-2839

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…

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.79%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.79%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.0
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.79% probability · 77th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
mozilla/firefox
Source
security@mozilla.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.