CVE-2016-1931 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-1931?

CVE-2016-1931 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 31 Jan 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1931?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1931?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-1931 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1931 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-x2jf-fqm5-8f5p, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1931.