CVE-2016-1931

critical
Published 2016-01-31 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
10.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
98%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected โ€”
13.2 Affected โ€”
13.1 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"43.0.4"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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