vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9898: Use After Free

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Added
Jun 11, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM subtrees in the Editor. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox-esr
Title
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