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Red Hat: CVE-2016-2828: Critical: firefox security update (RHSA-2016:1217)

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-2828: Critical: firefox security update (RHSA-2016:1217)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/08/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/29/2016
Modified
01/17/2018

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via WebGL content that triggers texture access after destruction of the texture's recycle pool.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo

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