Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-1976

Title: Mozilla Firefox Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-1976.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Mar 13, 2016
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.5 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.69%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-1976: Use-after-free vulnerability in the DesktopDisplayDevice class in the WebRTC implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Windows might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Impacted Vendors

M
mozilla 1
W
webrtc_project 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-32.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84220 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176340 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-32.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84220 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176340 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-1976 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.