CVE-2016-1972

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Race condition in libvpx in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Windows might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Mar 13, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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