CVE-2016-2839

medium
Published 2016-08-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
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-2016-2839

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-65.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2839.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0
linux linux-kernelnot-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ffmpegffmpeg0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"47.0.1"}
mozilla mozillafirefox45.1.0
mozilla mozillafirefox45.1.1
mozilla mozillafirefox45.2.0
mozilla mozillafirefox45.3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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