Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.0esr-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.79% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-FIREFOXESR-11742260
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed7 Aug 2016

Introduced: 7 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-1951  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 firefox-esr to version 45.0esr-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr package and not the firefox-esr package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1