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CentOS: (CVE-2016-5280) CESA-2016:1912: firefox

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 22, 2016
Added
Sep 22, 2016
Modified
May 7, 2019

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::nsTextNodeDirectionalityMap::RemoveElementFromMap function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via bidirectional text.

Solution

centos-upgrade-firefox
Title
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