CVE-2016-1957 is a memory leak vulnerability in the libstagefright component of Mozilla Firefox before version 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7, affecting products from Mozilla, Novell, OpenSUSE, and Oracle. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (MEDIUM), indicating a low-impact denial of service via memory consumption, triggered by a remote attacker providing a specially crafted MPEG-4 file. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it is not listed in the KEV catalog. Despite limited community discussion and media coverage, it was addressed in Firefox 45, which patched 22 critical vulnerabilities.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 44.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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