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MFSA2016-71 Firefox: Crash in incremental garbage collection in JavaScript (CVE-2016-5255)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Aug 2, 2016

Added

Aug 3, 2016

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the js::PreliminaryObjectArray::sweep function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript that is mishandled during incremental garbage collection.

Solution

mozilla-firefox-upgrade-48_0

References

CVE-2016-5255
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-5255
CWE-416
EUVD-EUVD-2016-6206
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-71.html
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-6206

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