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CVE-2016-1931

CRITICAL

10.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.0620%

EPSS Percentile12.53th

PublishedJan 31, 2016

Last ModifiedMay 6, 2026

Vulnerability Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 44.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to uninitialized memory encountered during brotli data compression, and other vectors.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Mozilla

Firefox

<= 43.0.4

💻

Opensuse

Leap

= 42.1

💻

Opensuse

Opensuse

= 13.1

💻

Opensuse

Opensuse

= 13.2

References & Advisories

🔗 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html

🔗 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html

🔗 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-01.html

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81953

🔗 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034825

🔗 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-1

🔗 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2880-2

🔗 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1180064

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