CVE-2016-1951

HIGH 8.6CVE-2016-1951 · Published 07/08/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-1951 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.6) vulnerability affecting netscape portable runtime (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
netscape portable runtime mozilla	`≤ 4.11`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple integer overflows in io/prprf.c in Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) before 4.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string to a PR_*printf function.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/92385
securitytracker.com/id/1036590
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3023-1
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
groups.google.com/forum/message/raw · Mailing List
hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/rev/96381e3aaae2

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