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CVE-2016-1933

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1933 is an integer overflow vulnerability in the image-deinterlacing functionality of Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 44.0, as well as several OpenSUSE Firefox and Leap products. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service, leading to memory consumption or application crashes, through a specially crafted GIF image. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.0 score of 6.5 (MEDIUM), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity requiring user interaction, resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 43.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0179 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 26,208 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-1933Moderate

Mozilla: Out of Memory crash when parsing GIF format images (MFSA 2016-02)

Jan 26, 2016

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00002.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201605-06
mozilla.org / security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-02.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/81956
securitytracker.com / id/1034825
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2880-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2880-2