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MFSA2015-65 Firefox: Use-after-free in workers while using XMLHttpRequest (CVE-2015-2733)

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MFSA2015-65 Firefox: Use-after-free in workers while using XMLHttpRequest (CVE-2015-2733)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/05/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/08/2015
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving attachment of an XMLHttpRequest object to a dedicated worker.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-31_8
  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-38_1
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-39_0

References

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