CVE-2016-5259

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92258

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-73.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3