CVE-2016-5259

CWE-416 — Use After Free8 documents8 sources
Severity
8.8HIGH
EPSS
1.1%
top 21.51%
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 CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a script that closes its own Service Worker within a nested sync event loop.

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 Packages3 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox47.0.1+4
▶Debianfirefox-esr< 45.3.0esr-1+3
▶NVDoracle/linux5.0, 6, 7+2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-93fp-mg63-wc9r: Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-5259: Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 48↗2016-08-05
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CVEList
CVE-2016-5259: Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function 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 service workers with nested sync events (MFSA 2016-73)↗2016-08-02
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Debian
CVE-2016-5259: firefox - Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Moz...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5259 Mozilla: Use-after-free in service workers with nested sync events (MFSA 2016-73)↗2016-08-01
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