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MFSA2016-32 Firefox: WebRTC and LibVPX vulnerabilities found through code inspection (CVE-2016-1972)

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MFSA2016-32 Firefox: WebRTC and LibVPX vulnerabilities found through code inspection (CVE-2016-1972)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/08/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/10/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-45_0

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