UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1931

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1931

    Published: 26 Jan 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-1931
    Aliases:
    USN-2880-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1931, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-01/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2880-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1931

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High