CVE-2016-2824

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

The TSymbolTableLevel class in ANGLE, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 on Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of a WebGL shader that writes to an array.

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-2016-2824

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-53.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2824.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0
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"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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