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Red Hat: CVE-2016-5258: Critical: firefox security update (RHSA-2016:1551)

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-5258: Critical: firefox security update (RHSA-2016:1551)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/03/2016
Modified
01/17/2018

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.

Solution(s)

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

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