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MFSA2015-106 Firefox: Use-after-free while manipulating HTML media content (CVE-2015-4509)

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MFSA2015-106 Firefox: Use-after-free while manipulating HTML media content (CVE-2015-4509)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/22/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/23/2015
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLVideoElement interface in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript code that modifies the URI table of a media element, aka ZDI-CAN-3176.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-38_3
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-41_0

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