CVE-2016-1975 Race condition in n/a
Remote attackers can trigger race conditions in Firefox WebRTC to cause denial of service or potential code execution via memory corruption.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-1975?
CVE-2016-1975 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 13 Mar 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Multiple race conditions in dom/media/systemservices/CamerasChild.cpp in the WebRTC implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Windows might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
Weakness: CWE-362
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1975?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Mozilla Firefox, Webrtc Project Webrtc.
How do I fix CVE-2016-1975?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2016-1975 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1975 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q2gv-w495-jmxw.