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MFSA2016-85 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 49 (CVE-2016-5273)

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MFSA2016-85 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 49 (CVE-2016-5273)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/22/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/25/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The mozilla::a11y::HyperTextAccessible::GetChildOffset function in the accessibility implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-49_0

References

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