vulnerability

MFSA2016-51 Firefox: Use-after-free deleting tables from a contenteditable document (CVE-2016-2821)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 7, 2016
Added
Jun 8, 2016
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::dom::Element class in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2, when contenteditable mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by triggering deletion of DOM elements that were created in the editor.

Solutions

mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-45_2mozilla-firefox-upgrade-47_0
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