CVE-2016-1956: mozilla firefox Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-1956 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 2.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84.2% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 6.5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 6Timeline
- 13-03-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Linux, when an Intel video driver is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or stack memory corruption) by triggering use of a WebGL shader.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
2.43%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
84%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 2.43% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- firefox-esr< 45.0esr-1
Mozilla1 product
- firefox≤ 44.0.2
Novell1 product
Ubuntu1 product
- firefox< 45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
5 vendors · 6 products
References
17 links- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199923X Refsource CONFIRM
