vulnerability

MFSA2016-27 Thunderbird: Use-after-free during XML transformations (CVE-2016-1964)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 13, 2016
Added
Mar 16, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the AtomicBaseIncDec function in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by leveraging mishandling of XML transformations.

Solutions

mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-38_7mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-45_0
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