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CVE-2016-2821

Published: Jun 13, 2016 | Modified: Oct 30, 2018
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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
5.1 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2821
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::dom::Element class in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2, when contenteditable mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by triggering deletion of DOM elements that were created in the editor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 46.0.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat firefox-0:45.2.0-1.el5_11 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat firefox-0:45.2.0-1.el6_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat firefox-0:45.2.0-1.el7_2 *
Firefox Ubuntu devel *
Firefox Ubuntu precise *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Firefox Ubuntu wily *
Firefox Ubuntu xenial *

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