CVE-2016-1975

Publication date 13 March 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
thunderbird	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

may affect libvpx, advisory unclear

chrisccoulson

Windows only, according to Mozilla advisory

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
firefox	Upstream: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2ebbf6197fea

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L