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MFSA2016-42 Firefox: Use-after-free and buffer overflow in Service Workers (CVE-2016-2811)

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MFSA2016-42 Firefox: Use-after-free and buffer overflow in Service Workers (CVE-2016-2811)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/26/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/27/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ServiceWorkerInfo class in the Service Worker subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the BeginReading method.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-46_0

References

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