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MFSA2016-65 Firefox: Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with FFmpeg 0.10 (CVE-2016-2839)

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MFSA2016-65 Firefox: Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with FFmpeg 0.10 (CVE-2016-2839)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/03/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-45_3
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-48_0

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