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CVE-2016-9897

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9897 is a memory corruption vulnerability in WebGL functions within libGLES, affecting Firefox versions prior to 50.1, Firefox ESR prior to 45.6, and Thunderbird prior to 45.6. This flaw, rated High severity with a CVSS v3 score of 7.5, could lead to a denial of service due to a potentially exploitable crash. The attack vector is network-based with low complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0331 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:45.6.0-1.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:45.6.0-1.el6_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:45.6.0-1.el7_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-9897Moderate

Mozilla: Memory corruption in libGLES (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)

Dec 14, 2016

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-15
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3757
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2016-94
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2016-95
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2016-96
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94885
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037461
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry