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CVE-2016-1956

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2016-03-08 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2016-1956
Phase Assigned(20160120)

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Linux, when an Intel video driver is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or stack memory corruption) by triggering use of a WebGL shader.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-19.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199923
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1767
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1769
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1778