CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-1961

Published: Mar 13, 2016 | Modified: Dec 27, 2019
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6.8 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLDocument::SetBody function in dom/html/nsHTMLDocument.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging mishandling of a root element, aka ZDI-CAN-3574.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Leap Opensuse 42.1 (including) 42.1 (including)
Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 (including) 13.1 (including)
Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 (including) 13.2 (including)
Linux_enterprise Suse 12.0 (including) 12.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat firefox-0:38.7.0-1.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat thunderbird-0:38.7.0-1.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat firefox-0:38.7.0-1.el6_7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat thunderbird-0:38.7.0-1.el6_7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat firefox-0:38.7.0-1.el7_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat thunderbird-0:38.7.0-1.el7_2 *
Firefox Ubuntu precise *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Firefox Ubuntu wily *
Thunderbird Ubuntu devel *
Thunderbird Ubuntu precise *
Thunderbird Ubuntu trusty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu upstream *
Thunderbird Ubuntu wily *
Thunderbird Ubuntu xenial *

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