CVE-2016-1972

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0

Description The issue is related to a race condition in libvpx, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a use-after-free error, or possibly have other unspecified impacts. This is due to insufficient checking of resource state when the resource is shared. The exact vectors for exploitation are unknown.

Recommendations For versions prior to 45.0, update to version 45.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to libvpx until a patch is available.