vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9079: Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 3, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.0.2, Firefox ESR < 45.5.1, and Thunderbird < 45.5.1.

Solutions

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