| Name | CVE-2016-1956 |
| Description | Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 on Linux, when an Intel video driver is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or stack memory corruption) by triggering use of a WebGL shader. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | high |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 79.0-1 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | stretch | 68.10.0esr-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 68.11.0esr-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 68.10.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 68.11.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye, sid | 68.11.0esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firefox | source | (unstable) | 45.0-1 | |||
| firefox-esr | source | (unstable) | 45.0esr-1 | |||
| iceweasel | source | wheezy | (not affected) | |||
| iceweasel | source | jessie | (not affected) | |||
| iceweasel | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) |
[jessie] - iceweasel <not-affected> (Only affects Firefox 44.x)
[wheezy] - iceweasel <not-affected> (Only affects Firefox 44.x)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-19/