Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-2839
CVE-2016-2839
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.
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
8- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-65.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPermissions Required
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15nvd
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