CVE-2016-1961

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLDocument::SetBody function in dom/html/nsHTMLDocument.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging mishandling of a root element, aka ZDI-CAN-3574.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249377

http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-199/

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2934-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-24.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3520

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00008.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00089.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/b208427885d3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3