CVE-2016-5287 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After Free9 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 31.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A potentially exploitable use-after-free crash during actor destruction with service workers. This issue does not affect releases earlier than Firefox 49. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 49.0.2.

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

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 50.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 49.0.2
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 49.0.2
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 50.0-1 (sid)
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 49.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-qpcp-783x-fcf2: A potentially exploitable use-after-free crash during actor destruction with service workers↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-10-27
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OSV
CVE-2016-5287: A potentially exploitable use-after-free crash during actor destruction with service workers↗2016-10-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-10-27
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Red Hat
firefox: Crash in nsTArray_base↗2016-10-20
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Debian
CVE-2016-5287: firefox - A potentially exploitable use-after-free crash during actor destruction with ser...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5287 firefox: Crash in nsTArray_base↗2016-10-21
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5287 CVE-2016-5288 firefox: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2016-10-21
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