CVE-2016-1972

CVE-2016-1972 describes a race condition vulnerability in the libvpx library used by Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0 on Windows. This flaw could allow a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service via a use-after-free condition, or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS v3 score of 8.8 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over a network with low attack complexity and user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.