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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-5259: Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 4, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a script that closes its own Service Worker within a nested sync event loop.

Solutions

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