Use After Free Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.3.0esr-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-FIREFOXESR-1545773
- published 5 Aug 2016
- disclosed 5 Aug 2016
Introduced: 5 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-5254 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12
firefox-esr
to version 45.3.0esr-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr
package and not the firefox-esr
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:12
relevant fixed versions and status.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsXULPopupManager::KeyDown function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) by leveraging keyboard access to use the Alt key during selection of top-level menu items.