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CVE-2016-1944

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1944 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in the Buffer11::NativeBuffer11::map function within ANGLE, affecting Mozilla Firefox and various openSUSE distributions. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a high risk of denial of service and potentially other impacts, requiring no user interaction or authentication for exploitation over the network. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
43.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:43.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0372 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 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-2016-1944Critical

Mozilla: Unsafe memory manipulation found through code inspection (MFSA 2016-10)

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/mfsa2016-10.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/81950
securitytracker.com / id/1034825
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2880-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2880-2