vulnerability

MFSA2016-19 Thunderbird: Linux video memory DOS with Intel drivers (CVE-2016-1956)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 13, 2016
Added
Apr 15, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Linux, when an Intel video driver is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or stack memory corruption) by triggering use of a WebGL shader.

Solution

mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-45_0
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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