CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-2824

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The TSymbolTableLevel class in ANGLE, as used in Mozilla Firefox before version 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before version 45.2 on Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of a WebGL shader that writes to an array.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to application crashes, affecting service availability and potentially being exploited for further attacks on the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Mozilla Firefox to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor systems for unauthorized activities.

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Original NVD description (English source)

The TSymbolTableLevel class in ANGLE, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 on Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of a WebGL shader that writes to an array.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS