MFSA2016-26 Firefox: Memory corruption when modifying a file being read by FileReader (CVE-2016-1963)
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
03/08/2016
07/25/2018
03/10/2016
10/30/2017
Description
The FileReader class in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by changing a file during a FileReader API read operation.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-45_0
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