CVE-2016-5258 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After Free8 documents8 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.1%
top 21.91%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxOracle Linux
Timeline
PublishedAug 5
Latest updateMay 13

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.

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 Packages2 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox47.0.1+4
▶NVDoracle/linux5.0, 6, 7+2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-5v6h-wvqr-3crq: Use-after-free vulnerability in the WebRTC socket thread in Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2016-5258: Use-after-free vulnerability in the WebRTC socket thread in Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2016-08-05
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OSV
CVE-2016-5258: Use-after-free vulnerability in the WebRTC socket thread in Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2016-08-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-08-05
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in DTLS during WebRTC session shutdown (MFSA 2016-72)↗2016-08-02
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Debian
CVE-2016-5258: firefox - Use-after-free vulnerability in the WebRTC socket thread in Mozilla Firefox befo...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5258 Mozilla: Use-after-free in DTLS during WebRTC session shutdown (MFSA 2016-72)↗2016-08-01
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