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CVE-2016-2839
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-08-05T01:59:06.033 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:44:33.960

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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