CVE-2016-2818

high
Published 2016-06-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2818

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-49.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2818.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed47.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed45.2.0esr-1
debian debianbullseyefixed45.2.0esr-1
debian debianforkyfixed45.2.0esr-1
debian debiantrixiefixed45.2.0esr-1
redhat rhel5.0affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
debian debian8.0affected
suse suse12.0affected
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox45.1.0
mozilla mozillafirefox45.1.1
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"46.0.1"}
suse novellsuse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit12.0
suse novellsuse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise12

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.