CVE-2016-5277 — Use After Free in Firefox
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV6.5OSV4.3
EPSS
2.3%
top 15.38%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 22
Latest updateMay 14
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsRefreshDriver::Tick function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by leveraging improper interaction between timeline destruction and the Web Animations model implementation.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages5 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
4📋Vendor Advisories
4Red Hat
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Debian▶
CVE-2016-5277: firefox - Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsRefreshDriver::Tick function in Mozilla Fi...↗2016
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2016-5277 Mozilla: Heap-use-after-free in nsRefreshDriver::Tick (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)↗2016-09-20