vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-2821: Critical: firefox security update (RHSA-2016:1217)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 8, 2016
Added
Jul 29, 2016
Modified
Jan 17, 2018

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.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-firefoxredhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
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