The vulnerability of Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers allows a perpetrator to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the AnimationThread function in Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers is caused by buffer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to cause service interruptions by using the incorrect sscanf argument...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7176

The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument to the sscanf function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack-based buffer overflow and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impa...