CVE-2016-1961 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

9 documents8 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 26.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla ThunderbirdOpensuse Leap+3 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 13
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox44.0.2+13
▶NVDoracle/linux5.0, 6, 7+2
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.1
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse13.1, 13.2+1

Also affects: Linux Enterprise 12.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-gcwx-37j7-6p37: Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLDocument::SetBody function in dom/html/nsHTMLDocument↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2016-1961: Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLDocument::SetBody function in dom/html/nsHTMLDocument↗2016-03-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-1961: Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLDocument::SetBody function in dom/html/nsHTMLDocument↗2016-03-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2016-04-27
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-03-09
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in SetBody (MFSA 2016-24)↗2016-03-08
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Debian
CVE-2016-1961: firefox - Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLDocument::SetBody function in dom/html...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-1961 Mozilla: Use-after-free in SetBody (MFSA 2016-24)↗2016-03-08
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