vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2016-5258: Critical: firefox security update (RHSA-2016:1551)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Aug 3, 2016 | Aug 3, 2016 | Jan 17, 2018 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 3, 2016
Added
Aug 3, 2016
Modified
Jan 17, 2018
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the WebRTC socket thread in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging incorrect free operations on DTLS objects during the shutdown of a WebRTC session.
Solutions
redhat-upgrade-firefoxredhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
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