vulnerability
MFSA2016-65 Firefox: Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with FFmpeg 0.10 (CVE-2016-2839)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Aug 2, 2016 | Aug 3, 2016 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 2, 2016
Added
Aug 3, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
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.
Solutions
mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-45_3mozilla-firefox-upgrade-48_0
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