CVE-2016-1956

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

2.43%

Published

Mar 13, 2016

Modified

May 6, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit (1)

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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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-399

Affected Products (6)

mozilla · firefoxvulnerable

linux · linux_kernel

novell · suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprisevulnerable

opensuse · leapvulnerable

opensuse · opensusevulnerable

References (20)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00008.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-19.html

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199923

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06