Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-1931

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CVE-2016-1931

Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:44.0) (MFSA 2016-01)

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD10.0CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Red Hat. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

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 packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
ubuntu 12.04firefox44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ubuntu 14.04firefox44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ubuntu 15.04firefox44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
ubuntu 15.10firefox44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

References

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