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CVE-2016-1964

Published: Mar 13, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
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
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1964
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Use-after-free vulnerability in the AtomicBaseIncDec function in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by leveraging mishandling of XML transformations.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
LinuxOracle5.0 (including)5.0 (including)
LinuxOracle6 (including)6 (including)
LinuxOracle7 (including)7 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatfirefox-0:38.7.0-1.el5_11*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatthunderbird-0:38.7.0-1.el5_11*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatfirefox-0:38.7.0-1.el6_7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatthunderbird-0:38.7.0-1.el6_7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatfirefox-0:38.7.0-1.el7_2*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatthunderbird-0:38.7.0-1.el7_2*
FirefoxUbuntuprecise*
FirefoxUbuntutrusty*
FirefoxUbuntuupstream*
FirefoxUbuntuwily*
ThunderbirdUbuntudevel*
ThunderbirdUbuntuprecise*
ThunderbirdUbuntutrusty*
ThunderbirdUbuntuupstream*
ThunderbirdUbuntuwily*
ThunderbirdUbuntuxenial*

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