vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-18f39fb6-7400-4063-acaf-0806e92c094f (CVE-2016-9079): Mozilla -- SVG Animation Remote Code Execution

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 1, 2016
Added
Dec 1, 2016
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The Mozilla Foundation reports: A use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation has been discovered. An exploit built on this vulnerability has been discovered in the wild targeting Firefox and Tor Browser users on Windows.

Solutions

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