CVE-2016-9898 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After Free10 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.6%
top 14.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird+7 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM subtrees in the Editor. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.

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 Packages9 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 50.1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 50.1.0+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 45.6
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 45.6

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Enterprise Linux 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-x35g-9jv4-ff77: Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM subtrees in the Editor↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2016-9898: Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM subtrees in the Editor↗2018-06-11
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OSV
CVE-2016-9898: Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM subtrees in the Editor↗2018-06-11
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-12-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2017-01-28
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in Editor while manipulating DOM subtrees (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)↗2016-12-14
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-12-13
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Debian
CVE-2016-9898: firefox - Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM ...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9898 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Editor while manipulating DOM subtrees (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)↗2016-12-13
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