CVE-2016-1968

8.8 highEPSS 4.1%

Integer underflow in Brotli, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via crafted data with brotli compression.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

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

EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-189
Published: 2016-03-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mozilla:firefox

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-30.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1

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